goblet

Object NameGoblet with Hunting Scene

Made FromNon-lead glass

Dateabout 1700

Techniqueblown, cut, engraved

SizeOverall H: 22.6 cm; Rim Diam: 8.1 cm; Foot Diam: 10.6 cm

Accession Number79.3.626

Credit LineGift of The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Place Made

Northern Bohemia

Physical DescriptionColorless non-lead glass; blown, cut, engraved. Bucket bowl with rounded base; engraved inscription below the rim: "IAGEN ' AVF ' GRVNER ' HEYT ' BRINGT ' LVST ' VND ' FREIDT"; long, round- ended panel, below, with engraved scene of a mounted hunter carrying a rifle, following a dog, which is pursuing a stag toward a net; on the reverse, an oval panel with seven polished reducing lenses; oval cut facets at base of the bowl; complex stem consisting of mereses above a flattened knop with cut oval facets, three mereses, a hollow ball knop with all-over hexagonal faceting, two mereses, a quatrefoil ribbed knop, a merese, and a short capstan; circular foot with engraved wreath of flowers and foliage; rough pontil mark.
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