goblet

Object NameSerpent-stem Goblet

Made FromGlass

Date1600-1650

TechniqueFree-blown, pattern-molded, applied, tooled decor.

SizeOverall H: 25.5 cm; Rim Diam: 9.1 cm; Foot Diam: 9.4 cm

Accession Number58.3.177

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Exhibitions

The Magic of the Lamp: Flameworked Objects from the Permanent Collection

Place Made

Low Countries; perhaps Liege

Physical DescriptionClear glass with many minute bubbles and faint green-yellow tint; free-blown and pattern-molded, with applied and tooled decoration. Spreading foot with thickened edge and slight pontil mark, inverted baluster patterned in a rib mold and having an applied collar, composite coil formation forming a heart-like motif and terminating in two dragon heads with blue combs, the coils (or dragons) incorporating two yellow and one turquoise blue "latticinio" bands; on top of this formation a flattened knop pattern in a rib mold supporting the stemmed round funnel bowl.
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