goblet
Object NameGoblet with Animals
Made FromGlass
Date800-999
Place MadePersia
Techniqueblown, relief-cut
SizeSurviving H: 5 cm
Accession Number79.1.76
Credit LineBequest of Jerome Strauss
Curatorial Area(s)
Not On View
Physical DescriptionColorless. Blown and relief-cut. Goblet with bowl shaped like truncated cone. Lower wall straight and tapering to broad horizontal flange, below which it curves down and in, and joins very short solid stem; foot hollow and probably conical; no pontil mark. Wall above flange decorated in relief with frieze of three very similar animals shown in profile, running from right to left. Each animal has round head with small mouth, and eye in form of countersunk dot, long pointed ear, body decorated with raised spiral motif, one short front leg and one short back leg, both with round foot, and tail. All three animals have hatched feet and notched outlines.Provenance
Source
Jerome Strauss
(1893-1978) - 1979
