Goblet

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Object Name: 
Goblet
Place Made: 
Bohemia
Accession Number: 
79.3.1100
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 16 cm; Rim Diam: 7.6 cm; Foot Diam: 9.7 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1700
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Jerome Strauss
Primary Description: 
Colorless and transparent ruby-red non-lead glass; blown, cut, engraved. Conical, panel-cut bowl with engraved crowned mirror monogram "GSVK" (?) between crossed berried palm fronds; bowl enclosing numerous spiral red bands; disk above a facet-cut inverted baluster stem enclosing multiple spiral red threads; triple collar at the base of the stem; conical foot enclosing multiple spiral red threads; rough pontil mark on the underside; inscribed "84." on the foot.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Strauss, Jerome (1893-1978), Source
Category: 
Baroque
Color: 
colorless
ruby
Technique: 
engraving
glassblowing
cutting
Material: 
glass
Inscription: 
GSvK
engraved
: 
Engraved between crossed palm fronds with berries
84
inscription
: 
Etched foot

Exhibitions (1)

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

Publications (1)

Glass of the Alchemists: Lead Crystal-Gold Ruby, 1650-1750 (2008) illustrated, p. 197, #45; BIB# 103865