Goblet

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Object Name: 
Goblet
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, NY, Corning
Accession Number: 
75.4.611
Dimensions: 
H: 19.9 cm, D (max.): 10.2 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1920-1929
Credit Line: 
Gift of Steuben Glass
Primary Description: 
Colorless lead glass; blown, cut and engraved in the manner of rock crystal. Pointed shape; circular rim tapers to base of body cut and engraved with encircling crenellated pointed top panels with flowers and tenacious foliage growing upward from panels; hollow, panel-faceted, inverted baluster stem with encircling band of ovals and small ellipses; conical foot cut on base with encircling "zig-zag" foliate band; polished pontil.

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Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Steuben Glass, Inc., Source
Category: 
Crystal City
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
blown, cut, engraved (rock crystal style)
cut glass

Publications (2)

The American Cut Glass Industry: T. G. Hawkes and His Competitors (1996) illustrated, p. 298, #12-28, left; BIB# 36646
The Glass of Frederick Carder (1971) p. 196; BIB# 27279