goblet

Object NameGoblet

Engraverpossibly Casper Kreutzburg

Made FromGlass

Date1675-1699

TechniqueBlown, engraved

SizeOverall H: 24.5 cm; Rim Diam: 10 cm; Foot Diam: 11.6 cm

Accession Number88.3.46

Credit LineGift in memory of Paula Sophie Niese Sieker by her daughter Elise Julia Sieker Walker and Family

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Exhibitions

Glass of the Alchemists: Lead Crystal-Gold Ruby, 1650–1750

Place Made

Germany, possibly Thuringia

Physical DescriptionColorless, non-lead Glass; blown, engraved. Large ovoid bowl; copper-wheel engraved with a calligraphic inscription, "Unusquisq(ue) Fortuna sua faber" (Everyone is the smith of his own fortune); tall stem composed of multiple knops, with two sets of three sharp mereses, above a hollow flattened ball knop, another triple-merese knop, a squat hollow baluster knop, and another triple-disk merese at the bottom; spreading, circular foot with folded rim; engraved wreath of foliage encircling the foot; rough pontil mark.
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