goblet

Object NameGoblet

Made FromGlass, stone

Date1460-1360 BCE

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

Egypt's Golden Age

East Side Winter Antiques Show

Wine: Celebration and Ceremony

Here's How

Glass from the Ancient World

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

A Touch of Glass

Place Made

Egypt

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.
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