Palm Cup (Maigelein)

Object Name: 
Palm Cup (Maigelein)

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Object Name: 
Palm Cup (Maigelein)
Place Made: 
probably Germany
Accession Number: 
69.3.14
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 3.5 cm; Rim Diam: 7.8 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1500
Primary Description: 
Transparent dark green non-lead glass; blown, pattern-molded. Shallow, circular shape, with curved sides with molded broken swirl decoration; deep, conical kick on the underside, with rough ring-shaped pontil scar.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, Source
Category: 
Medieval
Color: 
green
Technique: 
mold-blowing
glassblowing
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (5)

Medieval Glass for Popes, Princes, and Peasants
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
Changing Exhibitions Gallery
A Cup of Kindness
Venue(s)
General Foods Collection Gallery 1984-02-01 through 1984-05-01
 
Masterpieces of Germanic Glass, 15th-19th centuries
Venue(s)
Bergstrom-Mahler Museum 1979-06 through 1979-09
The Secular Spirit: Life and Art in the End of the Middle Ages
Venue(s)
Cloisters 1975 through 1975
 
Medieval Art in Upstate New York
Venue(s)
Everson Museum of Art 1974-04-11 through 1974-05-13

Publications (5)

New Insights into 17th and 18th century Glass from Portugal: Study and Preservation (2016) illustrated, p. 35 (fig. 2.8);
Medieval Glass for Popes, Princes, and Peasants (2010) illustrated, p. 181, #71; BIB# 115588
Y'oroppa amerika no ant'iku garasu : shiru, kau, kataru, kansh'osura (2002) illustrated, p. 44; BIB# 74885
Masterpieces of Germanic Glass, 15th-19th centuries (1979) p. 20, #2; BIB# 21076
Medieval Art in Upstate New York (1974) illustrated, p. 13; BIB# 19073