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goblet

Object NameDouble Tiered Goblet

Made FromNon-lead glass

Dateabout 1670-1690

Place MadeBohemia

TechniqueBlown, engraved

SizeOverall H (abc): 34.9 cm; H (a&b): 30.5 cm; H (a): 17.5 cm; D (foot): 12.3 cm; (b): 11.3 cm, (c) 7.9 cm

Accession Number79.3.406

Credit LineGift of Jerome Strauss

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Exhibitions

Glass of the Alchemists: Lead Crystal-Gold Ruby, 1650–1750

On ViewThe Jerome and Lucille Strauss Study Gallery

Physical DescriptionColorless non-lead glass; blown, engraved. (a) Cup-shaped bowl with spiked gadrooning on lower part; engraved band of large stylized flowers on bowl with a round-sided panel at front containing two birds and a flowering plant; stem composed of two mereses, a baluster, two mereses, and a column; folded foot; rough pontil mark; printed sticker for the Glasgow Art Galleries and Museums exhibition on base; (b) cup-shaped bowl with spiked gadrooning on lower part, engraved band of stylized flowers around middle; attached to a domed cover by means of a stem formed of numerous mereses and flattened disks; spiked gadrooning on top of cover; engraved band of stylized leaves below; rough pontil mark; (c) small, dome shape cover with triple ball-knop finial; rough pontil mark.
Provenance

Former Collection Jerome Strauss (1893-1978)

Source Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation