goblet

Object NameGoblet

Made FromGlass

Dateabout 1795

TechniqueFree blown, cut, engraved

SizeOverall H: 13.7 cm; Rim Diam: 9.4 cm; Foot Diam: 6.7 cm

Accession Number55.4.45

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Exhibitions

East Side Winter Antiques Show

Independence Pursued: 17th and 18th c. American Glass: Amelung

Place Made

probably Bohemia

Physical DescriptionGoblet. Clear glass with slight greyish tinge and with many small and minute bubbles; free blown, cut and engraved; solid square cut foot, cut octagonal stem flaring downwards with octagonal increase, semi-oviform bowl; six-pointed cut star on base, eight cut panels at bottom of bowl, leaf sprays and small disks between tops of panels. On the bowl the American eagle, head turned to left, large shield on breast, olive branch in right talons, thunder bolt in left, pennant with "EPLURIBUS UNUM" in eagle's beak and surrounded by fifteen small stars; above, clouds and sunrays; at rim band with ovals from which depend festoons with flower sprays and clusters of grapes.
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