Goblet

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Object Name: 
Goblet
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
England, Newcastle upon Tyne
Accession Number: 
51.2.205
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 19.25 cm; Rim Diam: 8.5 cm; Foot Diam: 8.75 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1765-1770
Primary Description: 
Colorless, presumably lead glass, opaque white twists; blown and engraved. Bucket bowl, applied rod-like stem with opaque-white spirals -- wide-meshed gauze twist at center within pair of thread spirals --, applied high sloping circular foot with rough pontil mark; below rim of bowl, vintage circlet: alternate bunch of grapes in buff enamel and grape leaves and tendrils in white; traces of gilding on rim.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Steuben Glass, Inc., Source
1951-04-23
Hadden, Harvey, Former Collection
Davis, Cecil, Former Collection
Category: 
Baroque
Color: 
opaque white glass
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
engraving
Material: 
lead glass

Exhibitions (3)

Striking Innovation in British Glass
Venue(s)
Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens 1997-04-07 through 1999-04
The Story of English Glass
Venue(s)
Montclair Art Museum 1956
Museum of Fine Arts, Syracuse 1956
Wenham Historical Association and Museum 1956
Berea College 1958
Coe College 1958
Oneonta State Teachers College 1958
Paine Art Center and Arboretum 1958
Suffolk Museum 1958
Loeb Art Center 1959
Alabama Polytechnic Institute 1960
Birmingham Museum of Art 1960
Community Savings Bank 1960
Huntington Galleries 1960
Atlanta Art Association 1962
Brooks Memorial Art Gallery 1962
Columbia Museum of Art 1962
Georgia Museum of Art 1962
North Carolina State College Union 1962
URI Memorial Union 1962
 
Title Unknown (Rich's)
Venue(s)
Rich's Inc. 1948-10 through 1948-10

Publications (3)

Enamelling and Gilding on Glass (2013) illustrated, p. 74 (3rd from right); BIB# 142116
Striking Innovation in British Glass (1997) illustrated BIB# 95024
The Ingenious Beilbys (1973) illustrated, pp. 42-43, pl. 23; p. 63; BIB# 27395