Goblet

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Object Name: 
Goblet
Accession Number: 
51.2.152
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 18.75 cm; Rim Diam: 8.25 cm; Foot Diam: 8.6 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1760-1770
Primary Description: 
Colorless and opaque white, presumably lead glass; blown and enameled. Deep ogee-bowl, lower sides tapering sharply to tiny base of approximately the same diameter as the heavy applied tall rod-like stem with opaque-white spirals -- gauze twist core within pair of wide tapes --, applied sloping circular foot; enameled decoration: on obverse, large rococo monogram of foliated script letters, "S M H", in yellow picked out in brown; on reverse, crest of Horsey family in brick, yellow, brown, black and white.
Department: 
Provenance: 
Horsey Family, Former Collection
Steuben Glass, Inc., Former Collection
Davis, Cecil, Former Collection
Material: 
Inscription: 
S M H
Inscription
The Decorated Glasses of William and Mary Beilby
Venue(s)
Laing Art Gallery 1980-09-05 through 1980-10-31
Title Unknown (Royal Ontario Museum)
Venue(s)
Royal Ontario Museum 1950-05 through 1950-11
 
Title Unknown (Museum of Fine Arts, Philadelphia)
Venue(s)
Philadelphia Museum of Art 1948-11 through 1948-11
Title Unknown (Rich's)
Venue(s)
Rich's Inc. 1948-10 through 1948-10
 
National antiques exposition
Venue(s)
Madison Square Garden 1947-03 through 1947-03
The Ingenious Beilbys (1973) illustrated, p. 23, pl. 10a; p. 62; BIB# 27395