pokal
Object NameCovered Goblet or Pokal
Engraver
I. H.
Made FromGlass
Dateabout 1680-1690 (glass); 1708 (engraving)
Place MadeEngland
Techniqueblown, tooled, engraved
SizeOverall H: 43.2 cm; (a) Goblet Rim: 11.8 cm; (a) Goblet Foot: 11.9 cm
Accession Number58.2.2
Curatorial Area(s)
Exhibitions
Glass of the Alchemists: Lead Crystal-Gold Ruby, 1650–1750
On ViewThe Jerome and Lucille Strauss Study Gallery
Physical DescriptionClear heavy glass with few bubbles; blown, tooled and diamond-point entraved. (a) Plain conical foot with wide underfolded rim and rough pontil mark, composite stem consisting of an inverted baluster, a quatrefoil and a ball knop alternating with single, double and triple mereses, bucket bowl; (b) set-in highly domed cover with acorn finial with tear supported by a few mereses. On the bowl a coat-of-arms and, on the reverse, a helmet supported by two cupids and surmounted by a steer's head, both enclosed in pairs of leafsprays; in between the inscribed figures of Faith and Hope; along the bottom: "July 22th 1708", below the helmet "IXXX" (or "XXXI") enclosed in a branch held by the cupids; on the cover the arms of the City of London flanked by those of, probably, Wright and Ellis (Sotheby cat. description), with a fourth coat-of-arms (a heart enclosed in heart) on the reverse; an inscription reads: "United Hearts Death only, parts".Provenance
Former Collection
Cecil Davis
- 1958-07-24
Former Collection
E. V. Proffitt
