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goblet

Object NameGoblet
Made FromNon-lead glass, Silver coin
Date1676-1689
TechniqueBlown, tooled
SizeOverall H: 15 cm; Rim Diam: 7.4 cm; Foot Diam: 9 cm
Accession Number79.3.459
Credit LineGift of The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation
Curatorial Area(s)
Exhibitions
Three Great Centuries of Venetian Glass
Place Made
Italy, Venice
Physical DescriptionGoblet. Colorless. Blown; tooled; silver coin. Goblet. Slightly flaring, almost cylindrical bowl with fire-polished rim, attached by glue-bit to stem with blown knop containing silver coin of Pope Innocent XI (1676–1689) surmounting four flattened and graduated (largest at top) knops, and short, tapering section at base; joined by glue-bit [capstan?] to shallow, blown foot with infolded rim and pontil mark.
Provenance
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Untitled (White)
Josiah McElheny
2000
plate
Gordon "Don" D. Wier
designed in 1948
Brazilian
T. G. Hawkes & Company
1889-1900
bottle
Nippon Glass Company
about 1958
Vizner Collection
František Vízner
2010
Chung Ang Glass Industrial Company, Ltd.
1959