beaker
Object NameFooted Beaker
Made FromNon-lead glass
Dateabout 1815-1840
Place Madeprobably Silesia
Techniqueblown, cut, enameled
SizeH: 13.5 cm, D: 9.1 cm
Accession Number79.3.790
Credit LineBequest of Jerome Strauss
Curatorial Area(s)
On ViewThe Jerome and Lucille Strauss Study Gallery
Physical DescriptionColorless non-lead glass; blown, cut, enameled. Straight-sided cylindrical bowl; drawn waisted stem and foot; the rim cut; the sides of the bowl with rectangular panel decorated with transparent enamel, a landscape, with a large building in the foreground, and tall hills in the distance; in a frame of minute nail-head diamonds; two cut pointed panels of strawberry diamonds on either side; on the reverse, a sunburst, with central concave lens, in a rectangular panel; a band of large diamonds around the base of the bowl; panel-cut stem, petal foot rim; the underside of the foot with cut star.Provenance
Source
Jerome Strauss
(1893-1978)
