Goblet with Cover

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Object Name: 
Goblet with Cover
Accession Number: 
83.3.17
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 24.2 cm; Rim Diam: 12.3 cm; Foot Diam: 13.8 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1680-1700
Primary Description: 
Colorless non-lead glass; blown, carved, engraved. Large straight-sided bowl with rounded base; relief-carved shield with the engraved arms of the Electors of Brandenburg surrounded by the Ribbon of the Order of the Garter, inscribed "HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE", and surmounted by an elector's hat, flanked by palm fronds and fruiting laurel branches; relief-carved ring of pointed leaves on the base; stem composed of a capstan, an inverted baluster with sloping top above two cylindrical bands, and relief-carved pointed leaves on the tapered lower section, above a ring knop with a circuit of stiff relief-carved leaves encircling; short, cylindrical peg below; foot composed of a cylindrical socket, into which the stem of the goblet was cemented, above a cut rib, and a flared trumpet-shaped foot, with cut panels ending in a petal-shaped rim; circuit of cut small ovals on the underside.
Department: 
Provenance: 
Sotheby-Parke-Bernet, Source
1983-03-18
Krug, Helfried, Former Collection
Recent Important Acquisitions, 26 (1984) illustrated, p. 140, #12; BIB# AI13534
The Krug Collection of Glass. Part IV (KRUG IV) (1983-03-14) p. 58-59, #691; BIB# 8080
Glassammlung Helfried Krug (w/o German section) (1965) illustrated, pp. 174-175, #257; BIB# 27546
Gemalde, Ikonen, Skulpturen, Glas, Kunstgewerbe, #450 (1958-06-11) p. 78, #849, pl. 54; BIB# 9851