sweetmeat dish

Object NameSweetmeat Dish

Made FromGlass, Enamel

Dateabout 1700-1899

Place MadeGermany; Bohemia

TechniqueDip-molded, free-blown, cut, enameled, gilded

SizeOverall H: 12 cm; Rim W: 8.5 cm, D: 10.3 cm; Foot Diam (max): 7.8 cm

Accession Number51.3.216

Curatorial Area(s)

Not On View

Physical DescriptionSweetmeat Dish. Colorless glass; dip-molded bowl, free-blown foot and stem, cut, enameled and gilded decoration. Quatrefoil oval bowl with sides rising in double-ogee from tiny base; composite stem with heavy inverted baluster above small flattened knop, applied flaring sloping circular foot with tiny rough pontil mark; decoration: on bowl, at rim, row of tiny white dots above narrow band of scrolled gold leaves on alternate henna and French blue background, band outlined at bottom by tiny white dots and, at center of each lobe, white bead-tipped gold tassel (so worn as to be barely visible) between blue tears dotted in white; two rows of cut discs on lower bowl; stem cut in row of facets above panels.
Provenance

Source Rosenberg & Stiebel - 1951-03-23

Former Collection Frederick Neuberg
Leitmaritz, Czechoslovakia and Israel