goblet

Object NameGoblet

Made FromLead Glass, Coin

Dateabout 1713

Place MadeEngland

TechniqueBlown, Pattern Molded, Applied

SizeOverall H: 21 cm; Top Diam: 9.2 cm

Accession Number70.2.23

Credit LineGift of Jerome Strauss

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Exhibitions

Glass of the Alchemists: Lead Crystal-Gold Ruby, 1650–1750

On ViewThe Jerome and Lucille Strauss Study Gallery

Physical DescriptionColorless lead glass; blown, pattern-molded. Conical bowl with heavy, molded ribbing at base, pinched into diamonds ("nipt diamond waies"); three mereses above a hollow ball knop with four applied molded "raspberry" prunts and containing a silver Maundy 2d. coin of Queen Anne, dated 1713; above two small mereses and a hollow inverted baluster; folded foot; rough pontil mark on underside.
Provenance

Former Collection Jerome Strauss (1893-1978)