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beaker

Object NameBeaker with Cover

Made FromNon-Lead Glass, Silver

Dateabout 1540-1545

Place Madeprobably Austria, Hall in Tirol

TechniqueFree-blown, applied, diamond-point engraved

SizeOverall H: 29 cm; (a) Beaker H: 19.25 cm; Rim Diam: 12.3 cm; Glass Base Diam: 7 cm; Silver Base Diam: 10.5 cm

Accession Number50.3.1 A

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Exhibitions

Exhibition of Early German Art

On ViewEuropean Gallery

Interpretive Notes

Web Text

The signatures on both the beaker and cover belong to members of a guild or club. They were engraved between 1574 and 1861.

Physical DescriptionBeaker with Cover. Colorless non-lead glass of grayish cast, silver; free-blown, applied, diamond-point engraved. Slender glass with straight sharply spreading sides, rough pontil mark; silver base; set-in domed cover with drawn stemmed cushion knop, supporting applied final composed of stemmed ball on double-button; small pontil mark inside; cover and glass covered with diamond-point engraved dates (1574-1706), names of guild members, and ditties; silver base with chased crested molding clasping base of glass, wider gadroon molding with leaf-like motif at end of ribs and narrow plain rim.
Provenance

Source Steuben Glass, Inc. (American, founded 1903) - 1950-10-01

Former Collection Mensing Collection

Former Collection Henry Brown (English)

Former Collection Max Rosenheim

Former Collection A. Vecht