souvenir

Object NameSouvenir Tumbler

Made FromNon-Lead Glass

Date1833

TechniqueFree-blown, cut, engraved

SizeOverall H: 12 cm; Rim Diam (max): 8.5 cm; Base Diam (max): about 7.8 cm

Accession Number50.3.63

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern

Exhibitions

Czechoslovak & Italian Glass

Place Made

possibly Germany; probably Bohemia

Physical DescriptionSouvenir Tumbler. Colorless non-lead glass; free-blown, cut and engraved. Thick- walled and based, long sides cut in seven panels and spreading from projecting cut scalloped base; on each panel about .75 cm from rim, a relief oval medallion -- one engraved "Zum Andenken [In remembrance of] 1833" in three lines, "b. Teplitz" engraved below the medallion; engraved building or scene on each of other six medallions and inscription below (reading from right of dated medallion) "Schlossberg", "Schlachtenburg", "Wilhelmshohe", "Schloss", "Gartensaal", "Steinbad"; narrow horizontal flutes between inscriptions and base, cross-cut square-waffling on bottom.
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