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goblet

Object NameGoblet

Made FromGlass

Dateabout 1550-1599; engraved 1652

TechniqueBlown, applied, gilded, diamond-point engraved

SizeOverall H: 21 cm, Diam (max): 12.3 cm

Accession Number2014.3.4

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Interpretive Notes

Web Text

The engraving on this glass relates to the Treaty of Münster, 1648. The treaty granted independence to the seven provinces of the Protestant Dutch Republic, after decades of war with Spain and its Catholic allies.

Place Made

Austria, probably Tyrol, Hall in Tirol

Physical DescriptionGoblet. Colorless glass; blown, applied, gilded, diamond-point engraved. Goblet with a straight-sided bowl, set on a compressed spherical rib-molded knop highlighted with gold gilding between collars, on a trumpet foot with a fold at the rim. The cup is engraved with the arms of the Hapsburg Philip IV of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (Imperium Romanum Sacrum Nationis Germanicae) and two other unidentified coats of arms, possibly the coats-of-arms of the van Schagen family of Utrecht and Hoorn. The upper part of the bowl is engraved with the arms of the Seventeen United Dutch Provinces, each suspended from a chain encircling the rim of the bowl, symbolizing either friendship or political attachment. The coats of arms, under each of which is written its name in a scroll, are numbered 1 to 17, and grouped in sequence according to the type of crown surmounting them.
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