Covered goblet

Covered goblet

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Object Name: 
Covered Goblet
Title: 
Covered goblet
Department
European
Place Made: 
Germany, Hamburg, Hamburg
Date: 
about 1875-1880
Color
AAT
colorless
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 36 cm; Rim Diam: 8.25 cm; Foot Diam: 8 cm
Accession Number: 
51.3.115
Location: 
On Display
Description
Colorless, probably soda-lime glass, of yellowish smoky tinge, red and white twists, blue-green trim; pattern-molded and free- blown, applied and tooled decoration. (a) Delicate conical bowl resting on a slender short shank between head and tail of dragon in composite stem; -- head of dragon, hollow blue-green with white dots representing teeth and a white bead with black dot at center, the eyes; tail, a spirally ribbed coil of blue-green glass; the body, paired red and white spiral twists with three applied "waffled" fins, and swirled in an open (opposing spirals "figure-eight"; dragon attached by short shank to hollow ribbed inverted balusters tapering sharply to narrow blade knop at top of circular foot with pronounced swirled ribs and no pontil mark on base. (b) Set-in dome cover with tall open (opposing spirals) "figure-eight" finial like body of dragon but with more "fins".
Provenance
Blumka Gallery, Source
1951
Brauer, Dr., Former Collection
Three Great Centuries of Venetian Glass
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2002-06-21 through 2002-09-06
 
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2002-10-17 through 2003-02-16
The Flood of '72: Community, Collections, and Conservation (2012) illustrated, p. 10; BIB# AI88418
'The Magic of the Lamp' at Corning Museum of Glass (2003-01) illustrated, p. 22A;
Fantasy of Glass = Genso no garasu (1997) p. 45; BIB# 40979
Cam Kimyasi, Ozellikleri, Uygulamasi (1995) illustrated, p. 6; BIB# 104103
A Short History of Glass (1990 edition) (1990) illustrated, p. 87-88, #77; BIB# 33211
Working Glass at the Lamp, Part II (1985) pp. 9-14, ill. p. 11;
Garasu Nyumon (Introduction to Glass) (1983) illustrated, p. 105; BIB# 32417
Vetri, gionelti, smalti, tabacchiere (1981) illustrated, p. 14; BIB# 30910
A Museum Built on Sand (1980-10) pp. 126-130, ill. p. 130;
Architecture and Interior Design (1980) p. 272, ill.; BIB# 21186
A Short History of Glass (1980 edition) (1980) illustrated, p. 78, #77; BIB# 21161
Lampengeblasenes Glas des Historismus Die Hamburger Werkstatt C. H. F. Muller (1978) illustrated, pp. 93-94, #47;
Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1974) (1974) illustrated, cover; pp. 40-41, #43; BIB# 28793
Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1965) (1965) illustrated, cover; pp. 40-41, #43; BIB# 27582
Glas (1958) illustrated, p. 49, fig. 45;
Glass from the Corning Museum of Glass: A Guide to the Collections (1958) (1958) illustrated, cover; pp. 40-41, #37; BIB# 27746
Glas (1958) fig. 45; BIB# 25567
Three Centuries of European Glass (1955) #1;
Art in Glass (1955) p. 142;

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