goblet

Object NameCovered Goblet for Cigarettes and Matches

Made FromGlass

Date1800-1899

Place Madepossibly Bohemia; possibly Denmark

Size(A) H (a&b): 21.1 cm; (a) H: 13.8 cm, D (rim): 7.5 cm; (B) H (a&b): 20.3 cm

Accession Number55.3.61 A

Curatorial Area(s)

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Physical DescriptionOpaque double-walled "mercury" glass (silver on outside, gold on inside) enclosed in bubbly clear glass; free-blown, cased, pattern-molded and enameled. Covered goblet to be used as container for cigarettes and matches (?); ring foot with concave bottom and rough cemented pontil mark, spool-like stem, cylindrical beaker finial; the encased silver layer is fluted, on the outside - in frosted silver enamel - an arcade frieze below rim and four panels framed by wreaths and bearing alternating pendants and leaves, two flying birds underneath the pendants; arcades and festoons form a similar pattern on the beaker-finial.
Provenance

Source M. M. van Dantzig