tumbler

Object NameTumbler or Beaker

Made FromGlass, Gold Leaf, Silver Leaf, Lacquer

Dateabout 1730

Place MadeGermany; Bohemia

TechniqueFree-blown, lacquered, cut

SizeOverall H: 8.5 cm; Rim Diam (max): 7.5 cm; Base Diam (max): 5.8 cm

Accession Number51.3.224

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Exhibitions

East Side Winter Antiques Show

On ViewThe Jerome and Lucille Strauss Study Gallery

Physical DescriptionTumbler or Beaker. Colorless and milk-white glass; free-blown, gold and silver leaf and lacquered inset between outer colorless and inner milk-white glass. Straight sides spreading from smooth depressed base and cut in 18 panels; decoration: narrow gold band at top, silver leaf at bottom below central band depicting in gold and silver leaf, red lacquer and puce, medieval "tournament" tent in center, mounted duelists with upraised swords on one side and on the other, mounted duelists firing pistols.
Provenance

Source Rosenberg & Stiebel - 1951-03-23

Former Collection Frederick Neuberg
Leitmaritz, Czechoslovakia and Israel