Goblet

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Object Name: 
Goblet
Place Made: 
England
Accession Number: 
79.2.84
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 18.9 cm; Rim Diam: 7.7 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1760-1780
Credit Line: 
Gift of The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation
Primary Description: 
Goblet. Colorless, opaque white, and transparent red lead glass; blown, applied. Large ogee bowl; straight stem enclosing a single-series color twist (multi-spiral lace twist, with single opaque white and red threads); conical foot; rough pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Strauss Memorial Foundation, Ruth Bryan, Source
1979-03-22
Color: 
Colorless, Opaque White, Transparent Red
colorless
Technique: 
blown
applied

Publications (4)

In Sparkling Company: Reflections on Glass in the 18th-century British World (2020) illustrated, p. 18 (fig. 6);
Glass: A Pocket Dictionary of Terms Commonly Used to Describe Glass and Glassmaking (2006) illustrated, p. 86; BIB# 96551
Glass: A Pocket Dictionary of Terms Commonly Used to Describe Glass and Glassmaking (1993) p. 81; BIB# 35660
English Glass from the Strauss Collection (1980-04) illustrated, pp. 313-314, pl. VIII; BIB# AI7962