goblet

Object NameGoblet

Made Fromnon-lead glass

Dateabout 1715-1720

Place MadeEurope

Techniqueblown, cut, engraved

SizeOverall H: 21.9 cm; Foot Diam: 11.4 cm; Rim Diam: 11.3 cm

Accession Number79.3.610

Credit LineBequest of Jerome Strauss

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Exhibitions

Masterpieces of European and American Glass

On ViewThe Jerome and Lucille Strauss Study Gallery

Physical DescriptionColorless non-lead glass; blown, cut, engraved. Round funnel bowl; cut band of polished ovals at the rim; engraved equestrian portrait of King Friedrich William I; reverse with the Prussian crowned eagle with orb and scepter flies above a military encampment of tents; cut rounded panels at the base of the bowl; stem composed of a hollow, flattened, faceted ball knop above a panel-cut hollow ovoid knop; foot with cut panels, and engraved crowned monograms "FWR" alternating with mat-cut grenades; rough pontil mark.
Provenance

Source Jerome Strauss (1893-1978)