goblet

Object NameCovered Goblet

Glassmaker Hermann Schwinger (German, 1640-1683)

Made FromGlass

Dateabout 1660-1680

TechniqueFree-blown, tooled, engraved

Size(a&b) H: 37.3 cm; (a) H: 26.8 cm; D (rim): 8.9 cm, (foot): 12.2 cm

Accession Number56.3.79

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Place Made

Germany, Nuremberg

Physical DescriptionTransparent green and clear glass with many minute bubbles; free-blown, tooled and engraved. (a) Green wide conical folded foot with knop-like pontil mark, composite stem of clear glass consisting of an inverted baluster between groups of three mereses and two cylindrical and two flattened knops divided by single and triple mereses; (b) green set-in domed cover with composite finial of clear glass consisting of a flattened, a cylindrical and a ball knop divided by three pairs of mereses; engraved decoration: on the bowl a castle-like villa, single trees and bushes and two wanderers, on the cover a wreath of blossoms alternating with branches.
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