Goblet

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Object Name: 
Goblet
Place Made: 
possibly Italy, Venice
possibly Netherlands
Accession Number: 
58.3.201
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 21.5 cm; Rim Diam: 8.5 cm; Foot Diam: 9.2 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1600-1699
Primary Description: 
Goblet. Colorless, with brownish tinge. Blown, mold-blown (14 ribs) conical bowl with slightly flaring, fire-polished rim is joined by glue-bit to composite stem consisting of inverted baluster, solid ball knop, merese, and double ball knop; attached by capstan to shallow, mold-blown (14 ribs) foot with pontil mark.

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Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Morpurgo, Joseph M., Source
Color: 
colorless
brown
Technique: 
mold-blowing
blown glass
Material: 
glass

Publications (4)

The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian Glassworking (2016) illustrated BIB# 149619
Glass Through The Ages (Rev. Ed.) (1969) illustrated, p. 87 and pl. 26c;
Glass Through the Ages (Revised) (1959) illustrated, p. 87 and pl. 26c; BIB# 65361
Glass Through the Ages (1st Ed.) (1948) p. 76 and pl. 17c; BIB# 18668