goblet

Object NameCovered goblet

Made Fromnon-lead glass

Dateabout 1740-1750

Place MadeGermany, Brandenberg

Techniqueblown, cut, engraved, gilded

SizeOH: 32.5 cm; (goblet) H: 20.5 cm, D (top): 9.9 cm

Accession Number67.3.43

Credit LineGift of Jerome Strauss

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Exhibitions

Glass Drinking Vessels from the Strauss Collection

Heads of State

On ViewEuropean Gallery

Interpretive Notes

Web Text

The arms of King Frederic II of Prussia are shown on this goblet.

Physical DescriptionColorless non-lead glass; blown, cut, engraved, gilded. (a) Conical bowl continuing into a tapered stem; gilded rim above a band of polished circles; engraved and gilded portrait of King Frederick the Great in a crowned circular frame, flanked by arms and flags; stem cut and gilded in bands of rounded arcades; circular foot, rough pontil mark on inside of bowl; (b) domed form with gilded line and band of polished circles near rim, panel-cut and gilded below finial; arcade-cut and gilded ovoid finial; rough pontil mark.
Provenance

Source Jerome Strauss (1893-1978) - 1967-12

Former Collection D. Mandel