goblet

Object NameGoblet with Abbot's Coat of Arms

Made FromNon-lead glass

Dateabout 1700

Techniqueblown, engraved

SizeOverall H: 27.1 cm; Rim Diam: 10.4 cm; Foot Diam: 13 cm

Accession Number79.3.268

Credit LineGift of The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Place Made

probably Southern Bohemia (glass); Germany, Nuremberg (engraved)

Physical DescriptionColorless non-lead glass; blown, engraved. Large, tapered, straight-sided bowl with rounded base; engraved decoration of a three-part coat of arms, one oval panel depicting Mary and Christ, another a crowned, two tailed lion rampant, and the third quartered with men holding fish, alternating with shields of bends sinister with three arrows, crowned with an Episcopal miter and staff; flanked with crossed grape vine sprays; on the reverse a doe and stag standing in the landscape, with the sun above, and trees on either side, one with two peacocks in the branches; tall stem composed of a merese, a capstan, flattened ball knop, double merese, capstan, hollow ball with nipt ribbing, double merese, capstan, flattened ball, merese, and capstan; circular foot with folded rim; rough pontil mark.
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