Covered Goblet

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Object Name: 
Covered Goblet
Place Made: 
Bohemia
Accession Number: 
79.3.1095
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 29.4 cm; (a) Goblet H: 21.5 cm; (b) Cover H: 8.7 cm, Diam: 9.9 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1690-1700
Credit Line: 
Gift of Jerome Strauss
Primary Description: 
Colorless non-lead glass; blown, mold-blown, engraved. (a) Cup- shaped bowl with spiked gadrooning at the base; band of engraving above: two men with walking sticks, several buildings, and trees; inscribed "VIVAT/dem Herren" on the reverse; tall stem composed of two disks above a true baluster, two ball knops, an inverted baluster, two disks, and a basal flattened ball knop; folded foot; rough pontil mark. (b) Domed shape with spiked gadrooning; folded rim, inset brim; finial composed of a pear-shaped knop, a flattened ball knop, and two disks; rough pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Strauss Memorial Foundation, Ruth Bryan, Source
Strauss, Jerome (1893-1978), Former Collection
Color: 
colorless
yellow
Technique: 
glassblowing
mold-blowing
engraving
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (1)

Glass of the Alchemists: Lead Crystal-Gold Ruby, 1650–1750
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
Changing Exhibitions Gallery