goblet

Object NameGoblet

Engraver Elias Rosbach

Made FromNon-lead glass

Dateabout 1740

Place MadeGermany, probably Thuringia

Techniqueblown, cut, engraved

SizeOverall H: 27.4 cm; Rim Diam: 10.8 cm; Foot Diam: 11.8 cm

Accession Number79.3.302

Credit LineBequest of Jerome Strauss

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Exhibitions

Glass Drinking Vessels from the Strauss Collection

On ViewThe Jerome and Lucille Strauss Study Gallery

Physical DescriptionColorless non-lead glass; blown, cut, engraved. Thistle-shaped bowl, with tapered, straight-sided section above boldly-cut projecting gadrooning at the base; engraved decoration on the bowl; band of polished circles below the rim, with a continuous landscape scene below: Neptune reclines, leaning on a barrel from which water flows, with a gnarled tree behind, he looks across an expanse of water with several ships, to a distant city, inscribed "Salus Patriae*" above; beyond, men work in the fields plowing; stem composed of a hollow mold-blown hexagonal knop, above two mereses and a hollow mold-blown diamond-topped hexagonal pedestal stem, with two mereses at the base; spreading, folded foot with engraved leaves around the base of the stem; engraved signature "E. Rosbach. Gesch: Berlin"; rough pontil mark.
Provenance

Former Collection Schloss Dessau

Former Collection Frederick Neuberg

Source Jerome Strauss (1893-1978)