Covered Pokal

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Object Name: 
Covered Pokal
Place Made: 
Germany
Accession Number: 
56.3.80
Dimensions: 
(a&b) H: 32.7 cm; (a) H: 21.4 cm; D (rim): 8.5 cm, (foot): 9.9 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1700-1799
Primary Description: 
Clear glass; free-blown, cut and engraved and gilded. (a) High spreading folded foot with pontil mark, inverted baluster stem, deep thistle bowl; (b) set-in domed cover with pointed double- knop finial resting on a merese; cut decoration: band of upright ovals on foot, stem and lower bowl are faceted, band of ovals and notches around bulge of bowl, row of disks on upper covers finial is faceted; engraved decoration: on the bowl a coat-of-arms (the shield having 12 panels) surmounted by a royal crown and flanked by two branches, on the cover two volute- shaped vine-and-leaf-sprays; engraved decoration is gilded.

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Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, Source
1956
Color: 
Clear
Technique: 
free-blown, cut, engraved, gilded
engraving
cut glass