Goblet

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Object Name: 
Goblet
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, NY, New York City
Accession Number: 
79.4.340
Dimensions: 
H: 21.8 cm; D (bowl): 12 cm, (foot): 11.2 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1863-1870
Credit Line: 
Gift of The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation
Primary Description: 
Colorless lead glass; blown and engraved. Spherical bowl, copper-wheel engraved on one side with a detailed view of a building with "St. James" over the doorway and on the reverse with an elaborate monogram of entwined letters "ACH", floral motifs, and a "picket fence"; stem with cut vertical flutes; round flat foot with cut star underneath.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Strauss Memorial Foundation, Ruth Bryan, Source
Category: 
Early American
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
Blown, Engraved

Exhibitions (1)

Masterpieces of American Glass
Venue(s)
Museum of Applied Arts 1990-07-27 through 1990-09-02
State Hermitage Museum 1990-09-15 through 1990-10-21
Museum of the State Institute of Glass 1990-11-02 through 1991-01-04

Publications (4)

Masterpieces of American Glass (1990) illustrated, pp. 40, 93, pl. 63; BIB# 33046
Shedevry amerikanskogo stekla: iz kollektsij Muzeia Stekla v Korninge i Muzeia Iskusstva v Tolido (1990) illustrated, p. 66, #58; BIB# 34475
American Glass in the Jerome Strauss Collection (1980-08) figs. 6, 6A, p. 276; BIB# AI9966
Commemorative and Souvenir Glassware (1980-05) p. 64; BIB# AI8673