goblet

Object NameGoblet

Made FromGlass

Dateabout 1750

Techniqueblown, engraved

SizeH: 23.8 cm; D(rim): 10.5 cm, (foot): 11 cm

Accession Number79.3.350

Credit LineGift of Jerome Strauss

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Exhibitions

Glass Drinking Vessels from the Strauss Collection

Masterpieces of European and American Glass

Place Made

England (glass); Holland (engraved)

Physical DescriptionColorless lead glass; blown, engraved. Round funnel shape bowl; engraved scene of a man and a woman, holding hands, being led to the altar of love (with two burning hearts on top) by Cupid, tended by an angel holding a torch, in an elaborate scrollwork cartouche, inscribed above "'T GOED SUCCES - VAN 'T HUYWELYK."; stem composed of an angular knop above a teared inverted baluster and basal ball knop; conical foot with rough pontil mark; inscribed "1187." in white paint on the pontil mark.
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