Covered Goblet

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Object Name: 
Covered Goblet
Place Made: 
Europe
Accession Number: 
79.3.512
Dimensions: 
(a&b) H: 28.6 cm; (a) H: 21 cm, diam (foot): 9.7 cm (b) H: 8.2 cm, diam: 9.3 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1750-1760
Credit Line: 
Gift of The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation
Primary Description: 
Colorless non-lead glass; blown, cut, engraved, gilded. (a) Bell shape bowl with facet-cut base; gilded rim; engraved decoration of three female standing figures, inscribed above "PAX.JVS.CONCORDIA" and "PVNCTVM" below; on reverse, the Habsburg imperial eagle with arms of Emperor Francis I, with nine coats of arms surrounding it in a ring; inscribed above "CAESAR ET IMPERIVUM"; seven bubbles in base of bowl; facet-cut stem composed of paneled column above inverted baluster; domed and folded foot with ring of cut circular facets; rough pontil mark; (b) dome shape with ring of cut facets; gilded rim; facet-cut baluster finial; rough pontil; inscribed "32" in cream-colored paint on rim.

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Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Strauss Memorial Foundation, Ruth Bryan, Source
Strauss, Jerome (1893-1978), Former Collection
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
blown, cut, engraved, gilded
engraving
cut glass

Exhibitions (2)

Engraved Glass of Western Europe
Venue(s)
Brooklyn Museum 1958 through 1959
Glass Drinking Vessels from the Strauss Collection
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1955-06-13 through 1955-10-23