goblet

Object NameCovered Goblet

Made FromNon-lead glass

Date1725-1750

Techniqueblown, mold-blown, cut, engraved

SizeOverall H: 34.1 cm

Accession Number79.3.337

Credit LineBequest of Jerome Strauss

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Exhibitions

Drinking Glasses Through the Ages

Title Unknown (Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum)

Place Made

Silesia

Physical DescriptionColorless non-lead glass; blown, mold-blown, cut, engraved. (a) Conical bowl molded with two flat faces, two rounded convex sides, and four rounded, concave sides; engraved scrolls and drapery on the two flat faces, one with a bucolic landscape with sheep, the other with a hunter firing a rifle at a boar; convex sides with scale cutting; concave sides with scrolls, foliage, putti blowing hunting horns, and birds; two mereses above a facet-cut inverted baluster stem with disks at the base; foot cut in a form to match the cross-section of the bowl, decorated with engraved formal scrollwork band; and a circle of oval facets. (b) Domed cover in the shape of a bottle, in cross-section matching (a), decorated with engraved scrolls and foliage, and cut scales; ground, threaded cylindrical neck; cut flat base with polished pontil mark. (c) Scale-faceted ball finial with faceted flared disk base; ground threaded cylindrical screw.
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