goblet

Object NameGoblet

Made FromGlass, stone

Date1460-1360 BCE

Place MadeEgypt

TechniqueCore-formed, trail-decorated, tooled

SizeOverall H: 9.1 cm; Rim Diam: 7.6 cm; Foot Diam: 4.1 cm

Accession Number59.1.7

Curatorial Area(s)

Ancient

Exhibitions

A Touch of Glass

Antikes Glas aus der Sammlung Ray Winfield Smith: Kurpfalzischen Museum Heidelberg

Glass from the Ancient World

Here's How

Wine: Celebration and Ceremony

East Side Winter Antiques Show

Egypt's Golden Age

On ViewAncient Gallery

Physical DescriptionTranslucent deep blue glass, bubbly, some stone, trails of opaque turquoise, opaque white and opaque yellow, brown decomposition on surface; core-formed, trail-decorated and tooled. Thick rounded rim bends down sharply to form deep inverted conical body; rim and body decorated with a thin applied trail of white wound around ten times alternating with three trails of turquoise and four trails of yellow all marvered in and dragged upward toward rim thirty times; a heavy trail of turquoise is left in relief on the rim, a corresponding trail of yellow followed by white highlights the bottom of the bowl before it tapers inward and down to form a thick stem terminating in a flattened, rounded foot; the edge of the foot is highlighted with a turquoise trail, the underside has a conical depression.
Provenance

Source Ray Winfield Smith (American, 1897-1982) - 1959-07-27