Goblet

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Object Name: 
Goblet
Place Made: 
Accession Number: 
84.3.146
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 17.2 cm, Diam: 9.7 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1830-1850
Credit Line: 
Clara S. Peck Endowment Fund
Primary Description: 
Colorless lead glass, white sulphide; blown, cut, encased, molded sulphide. Large cylindrical bowl, with cut plain rim, a wide band of cut square tables, each with radial stars on the sides, with a rectangular, convex panel on the front, enclosing a male sulphide head (Goethe), facing sinister, on the front; a band of cut panels below, each with a convex circular boss in the center; panel-cut, waisted stem, with cut raised cross-cut band at the center; stem flaring into a thick foot with chamfered, notched rim, faces with square cross-cut panels; underside of the foot with heavy rounded radial ribbing.
Department: 
Provenance: 
Peck, Clara S. (d. 1983), Source
1984-04-06
Lyons, Louis, Source
1984-04-06
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1984 (1985) illustrated, p. 16; BIB# AI96385