Goblet

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Object Name: 
Goblet
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Europe
Accession Number: 
91.3.36
Dimensions: 
H: 26.5 cm, Diam (foot): 10.7 cm, Diam (rim): 7.1 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1600-1699
Primary Description: 
Colorless glass with olive-green tinge; seeds, few refractory stones, and cords. Blown, applied. Goblet with funnel-shaped, furnace-opened bowl, rounded at base. Stem consists of ribbed hollow double knop attached with glue-bit to stylized double-headed eagle with hollow ovoid body, straight solid necks, sheared and pincered oval wings, and two molded “raspberry” prunts applied on either side; mounted with glue-bit to ribbed hollow triple-knopped section at base. Blown foot has rough pontil mark. Knop below bowl contains an amber-coloured, small shapeless piece of glass.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Brunnier Gallery, Source
1991-03-14
Category: 
Facon de Venise
Color: 
Transparent faint grey
Technique: 
blown, trailed, pincered, molded

Exhibitions (1)

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

Publications (2)

Glass & Ceramics Conservation 2010 (2010) illustrated, p. 106; BIB# 118800
Glass of the Alchemists: Lead Crystal-Gold Ruby, 1650-1750 (2008) illustrated, p. 156, #12; BIB# 103865