Trick Goblet

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Object Name: 
Trick Goblet
Place Made: 
probably Germany
Accession Number: 
68.3.61
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 30.8 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1675-1725
Credit Line: 
Gift of Jerome Strauss
Primary Description: 
Colorless non-lead glass; blown. (a) Deep bell-shaped bowl with prunt inside at the base; hollow inverted baluster stem with front half of three solid stags with linked horns attached; folded foot with rough pontil mark. (b) Hollow cylindrical tube with ball knop at top, trailed ring at bottom, with front half of three hollow stags with linked horns attached near top, with molded "raspberry" prunts applied to their chests, one with open mouth.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Strauss, Jerome (1893-1978), Source
1968-12
Category: 
Medieval
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
Material: 
glass

Publications (4)

Glass Animals: 3,500 Years of Artistry and Design (1988) illustrated, p. 71 (bottom); BIB# 32200
Glass Animals: 3500 Years of Artistry (1988) illustrated, leaf 38 (back, left); BIB# 3398
Glass Drinking Vessels: From the Collections of Jerome Strauss and The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation: a Special Exhibition, 1955 (1955) p. 60, #158; BIB# 27783
Galerie Fischer (1937-08-31) lot 611; BIB# 9849