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Description
Primary Description:
Covered Goblet. Colorless (yellowish) non-lead glass; blown, carved, engraved. (a) Conical bowl decorated with relief-carved naturalistic flowers (tulips, fritilaria, and a lily), with partly polished details; stems composed of a flattened ball knop, an ovoid knop with carved and partly-polished overlapping leaves, and a flattened ball knop at the base; spreading foot with relief- carved sunflower on the upper surface, cross-hatched center extending onto the stem; cut, tapered rim; polished pontil mark. (b) Domed shape with cut, inset brim; relief-carved flowers on the side (tulips, daisies?, and roses?) and a sunflower on top (matching that on a); finial composed of an ovoid knop with relief-carved overlapping leaves and a flattened ball.
Exhibitions (2)

Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
Changing Exhibitions Gallery

Glass Drinking Vessels from the Strauss Collection
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1955-06-13 through 1955-10-23
Publications (5)
Glass of the Alchemists: Lead Crystal-Gold Ruby, 1650-1750 (2008)
illustrated, pp. 232-233, #69;
BIB# 103865
Glass Drinking Vessels: From the Collections of Jerome Strauss and The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation: a Special Exhibition, 1955 (1955)
pp. 81-82, #203;
BIB# 27783