Goblet

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Object Name: 
Goblet
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
England, Newcastle upon Tyne
Accession Number: 
79.2.72
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 18.4 cm; Rim Diam: 8.2 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1765-1770
Credit Line: 
Gift of The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation
Primary Description: 
Colorless lead glass; blown, enameled. Round funnel bowl, enameled horse's-head crest (in brown with yellow and black reins) on one side, and the initials "SMH" in yellow and black on the opposite side; straight stem enclosing a double-series opaque white twist (pair of spiral corkscrew tapes encircling a lace twist); conical foot; rough pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Strauss Memorial Foundation, Ruth Bryan, Source
1979-03-22
Category: 
Baroque
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
enameling
Material: 
lead glass
Inscription: 
SMH
Inscription
: 
on one side in yellow and black

Exhibitions (1)

Glass Drinking Vessels from the Strauss Collection
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1955-06-13 through 1955-10-23

Publications (3)

English Glass from the Strauss Collection (1980-04) illustrated, cover, pp. 311, 314, fig. 3; BIB# AI7962
The Ingenious Beilbys (1973) illustrated, p. 23, pl. 10a; BIB# 27395
Glass Drinking Vessels: From the Collections of Jerome Strauss and The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation: a Special Exhibition, 1955 (1955) illustrated, pp. 103-104, #262; BIB# 27783