Covered Goblet

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Object Name: 
Covered Goblet
Place Made: 
Bohemia
Accession Number: 
79.3.309
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 34.7 cm; Rim Diam: 9.9 cm; Foot Diam: 14.3 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1700-1720
Credit Line: 
Gift of The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation
Primary Description: 
Colorless, transparent red, and gold-flecked red. Blown, cut. Goblet with tapered, panel-cut bowl. Stem consists of capstan above faceted ovoid knop, capstan, facet-cut inverted baluster, ovoid base knop, and capstan. Large blown foot with rough pontil mark. Domed cover has inset rim and is panel-cut, with nipped red and gold-flecked red stripes. Double merese below facet-cut finial made up of ball knop, baluster, and flattened knop, with red and gold-flecked red spiral threads; rough pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Polak, Albert, Former Collection
Strauss Memorial Foundation, Ruth Bryan, Source
1979-03-27
Category: 
Baroque
Color: 
red
colorless
gold
Technique: 
glassblowing
cutting
Material: 
glass
gold

Exhibitions (2)

Glass of the Alchemists: Lead Crystal-Gold Ruby, 1650–1750
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 (7)

Alchemists' Experiments Changed Glassmaking (2008-06-25) illustrated BIB# AI76140
CMOG to Unveil New Exhibit (2008-06-25) illustrated
Glass of the Alchemists: Lead Crystal-Gold Ruby, 1650-1750 (2008) illustrated, pp. 258-259, #86; BIB# 103865
Glass of the Alchemists: Lead Crystal - Gold Ruby, 1650-1750 (2008) illustrated, p. 5; BIB# AI101015
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass: Checklist of the Exhibition (1999) illustrated, p. 29; BIB# 63967
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass (1992) illustrated, p. 62, #54; BIB# 35679
Glass Drinking Vessels: From the Collections of Jerome Strauss and The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation: a Special Exhibition, 1955 (1955) p. 107, #269; BIB# 27783