Covered Goblet

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Object Name: 
Covered Goblet
Place Made: 
Germany, Nuremberg
Accession Number: 
79.3.198
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 44.6 cm; Rim Diam: 10.7 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1680-1700
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Jerome Strauss
Web Description: 
Large goblets, engraved with family coats of arms, were proudly displayed in the public reception rooms of castles and palaces.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Strauss, Jerome (1893-1978), Source
Dessau Castle, Former Collection
Neuberg, Frederick, Former Collection
Category: 
Baroque
Color: 
green
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
engraving
Material: 
glass

Description

Primary Description: 
Colorless and transparent dark green non-lead glasses; blown, engraved. (a) Large green bucket bowl with rounded base; engraved on one side with an elaborate coat of arms, on the opposite side an elaborately scrolled inscription "Aúgúst dem Held zu Sachssen/muss nie kein Leid zú wachssen"; tall colorless stem composed of two discs above a hollow cylindrical section, two discs, hollow flattened ball, two discs, hollow cylinder, two discs, hollow inverted baluster, and two discs; colorless circular foot with folded rim and engraved foliate wreath; rough pontil mark. (b) Domed green shape with folded rim and inset brim, with engraved wreath of foliage with polished berries; tall colorless finial composed of a berry-prunted hollow inverted baluster, above two discs, hollow flattened ball knop, two discs, hollow cylindrical section, and two discs; rough pontil mark on the inside of the cover.

Exhibitions (2)

The Fragile Art: Extraordinary Objects from The Corning Museum of Glass
Venue(s)
Park Avenue Armory 2009-01-23 through 2009-02-01
The 55th Annual Winter Antiques Show
Glass Drinking Vessels from the Strauss Collection
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1955-06-13 through 1955-10-23
 

Publications (3)

The Yearning for Venetian Glass: Beauty that Traversed Oceans and Time (2011) illustrated, p. 13, fig. 6;
55th Winter Antiques Show, A Benefit for East Side House Settlement (2009) illustrated, p. 144; BIB# 29139
Glass Drinking Vessels: From the Collections of Jerome Strauss and The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation: a Special Exhibition, 1955 (1955) pp. 78-79, #197; BIB# 27783