Goblet

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Object Name: 
Goblet
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, MA, Sandwich
Accession Number: 
79.4.338
Dimensions: 
H: 17.9 cm; D (rim): 9.2 cm, (foot): 9.8 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1870
Credit Line: 
Gift of The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation
Primary Description: 
Colorless lead glass; blown, stained and engraved. Bell-shaped bowl engraved with flowers and three oval cartouches stained amber; one cartouche contains the monogram "AM"; applied stem with cut vertical flutes; applied round foot with cut star underneath.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Strauss Memorial Foundation, Ruth Bryan, Source
Category: 
Early American
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
blown, stained, engraved
staining

Exhibitions (1)

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

Publications (4)

Cut Glass: A New England Product (1985-03) ill. p. 14;
The Woman's Day Dictionary of Glass (1983) cover ill.; BIB# 22377
American Glass in the Jerome Strauss Collection (1980-08) frontispiece, p. 270; BIB# AI9966
Glass Drinking Vessels: From the Collections of Jerome Strauss and The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation: a Special Exhibition, 1955 (1955) illustrated, pp. 121-122, #309; BIB# 27783