Covered Goblet

Covered Goblet

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Object Name: 
Covered Goblet
Department
European
Category
Baroque
Place Made: 
Silesia
Date: 
1730-1740
Color
AAT
colorless
Technique
AAT
glassblowing
AAT
cutting
AAT
engraving
Material
AAT
glass
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 28 cm; Rim Diam: 8.9 cm; Foot Diam: 10 cm
Accession Number: 
56.3.76
Location: 
On Display
Description
Clear glass with minute bubbles; free-blown, cut and engraved. (a) Flat foot with slight pontil mark, solid inverted baluster stem flanked by mereses, deep straight-sided bowl with bell- shaped bottom; (b) set-in slightly domed cover with solid oval stemmed finial; cut decoration: star of radiant ovals on base, paneled stem with raised scale band at top, paneled lower bowl including a raised wave band, curved section of cover has deeply cut vertical notches to divide section into 7 ovals (6 small, 1 large), two concentric rings with diaper band and radiant ovals on top of cover, finial cut to form a bud with two raised scale bands; engraved decorations: along rim of foot a band of hatched triangles; on the bowl a panel with a pastoral scene showing a young man leaning against the knees of a seated girl and being crowned with a wreath by another girl, two allegorical figures (a woman with sword and scale, a man with wreath and palm branch) surmounted by crown-like cartouches, around central panel and on reverse stylized palm motifs in polished raised engraving (or cutting) of transitional planes.
Provenance
Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, Source
1956
Czechoslovak & Italian Glass
Venue(s)
Museum of Contemporary Crafts 1964-09-15 through 1964-12-01
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass (1992) illustrated, p. 66, #59; BIB# 35679
Masterpieces of Glass: A World History From The Corning Museum of Glass (1990) illustrated, pp. 150-151, pl. 67; BIB# 33819
Vetri del Settecento e dell'ottocento (1985) illustrated, p. 43; BIB# 32949
Funf Westdeutsche Nachlasse, Deutscher und Auslandischer Kunstbesitz, (catalogue #446) (1956-11) #736;

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