Goblet

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Object Name: 
Goblet
Place Made: 
England
Accession Number: 
79.2.151
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 29.8 cm; Rim Diam: 17.6 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1690-1700
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Jerome Strauss
Primary Description: 
Goblet. Colorless lead glass; blown, applied, pattern-molded. Large ovoid bowl, decorated with trailed chain decoration below rim and a band of molded vertical ribbing pinched into diamonds ("nipt diamond waies") at base; wavy merese at the base of bowl above a stem composed of a flattened knop containing air beads above a flattened knop and waisted hollow capstan; slightly domed foot with wide fold on rim; rough pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Strauss, Jerome (1893-1978), Source
1979-03-22
Clements, Hamilton, Former Collection
1930-05-15
Brown, Henry (English), Former Collection
1930-05-15
to
1947-11-14
Dawson, Hugh, Former Collection
1947-11-14
to
1951-03-06
Hotblack, Former Collection
1951-03-06
to
1956-03-13
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
molding
applied
Material: 
lead glass

Exhibitions (1)

Glass of the Alchemists: Lead Crystal-Gold Ruby, 1650–1750
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
Changing Exhibitions Gallery

Publications (9)

In Sparkling Company: Reflections on Glass in the 18th-century British World (2020) illustrated, p. 17 (fig. 4);
Glass of the Alchemists: Lead Crystal-Gold Ruby, 1650-1750 (2008) illustrated, p. 180, #29; BIB# 103865
Investing in Georgian Glass (1971) p. 21; BIB# 74772
Collecting Georgian Glass (1971) p. 21; BIB# 87457
Investing in Georgian Glass (1969) p. 21; BIB# 27206
Collection of English drinking glasses and cut glass (the second and final portion)... fine French paperweights (1956-03-13) lot 52; BIB# 12095
Fine old English glass, the property of Sir Hugh Dawson, comprising rare English drinking glasses... (1951-03-06) lot 145; BIB# 10942
Celebrated collection of old English glass, the third and last portion, the property of Henry Brown, Esq... (1947-11-14) lot 292; BIB# 10933
Well-known collection of old English glass (Part 1), property of the late Hamilton Clements... rare Jacobite... (1930-05-15) lot 31; BIB# 10917