goblet

Object NameGoblet with Lion Stem

Made FromGlass, Gilding

Date1550-1600

Place MadeItaly, Venice

Techniquefree-blown, pattern-molded, gilded

SizeOverall H: 13.2 cm; Rim Diam: 7.1 cm; Foot Diam: 7 cm

Accession Number56.3.57

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Exhibitions

Mille Anni di Arte del Vetro a Venezia

On ViewThe Jerome and Lucille Strauss Study Gallery

Physical DescriptionColorless glass with greenish-grey tinge, with seeds. Gilt, mold-blown. Bell-shaped bowl with slightly uneven (sheared-off?) rim, joined by merese to hollow-blown “lion-mask” stem; joined with avolio to shallow, blown foot with infolded rim and small, rough pontil mark.
Stem is blown into a two-piece mould, two lion’s mask alternating with four-petalled rosette above pearl garland. Shoulder and lower part are gadrooned. Lion-stem gilt with “shattered” gold leaf.
Provenance

Source Arthur Churchill (Glass) Ltd. - 1956

Former Collection Miller von Aichholz
Possibly Eugen Miller von Aichholz, Vienna