goblet

Object NameGoblet

Made FromGlass, Gold

Date1500-1599

Place MadeItaly, Venice

TechniqueBlown, applied, tooled, gilded

SizeOverall H: 16.6 cm, Diam (rim): 10.2 cm; Diam (foot): 8.3 cm

Accession Number79.3.1227

Credit LineGift of The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Exhibitions

Glass Drinking Vessels from the Strauss Collection

On ViewThe Jerome and Lucille Strauss Study Gallery

Physical DescriptionGoblet. Colorless. Blown (two gathers); applied, tooled, gilded. Conical bowl with fire-polished rim; attached by merese to pedestal foot with infolded rim and pontil mark. Second gather applied to lower two-thirds of bowl and mold-blown with six pairs of vertical ribs, each pair pincered together near top. Just below rim, frieze of foliage framed, on top and bottom, by horizontal gilded lines.
Provenance

Source Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation - 1979

Former Collection Mrs. H. O. Havermeyer - 1927

Former Collection Jerome Strauss (1893-1978)