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Covered Goblet

Covered Goblet

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Object Name: 
Covered Goblet
Department
European
Category
Renaissance
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice
Date: 
about 1575-1650
Color
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colorless
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brown
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gray
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opaque white glass
Technique
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glassblowing
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tooling
Material
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glass
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 36.4 cm; (a) Goblet H: 27.6 cm; Rim Diam: 10.6 cm; (a) Goblet Foot Diam: 11.3 cm
Accession Number: 
67.3.42
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mr. Jerome Strauss
Location: 
On Display
Description
Covered Goblet. Colorless, with brownish gray tinge; opaque white. Vetro a retorti; tooled. Tall bowl made in series of eight bulges that diminish in diameter from top to bottom, with flaring, fire-polished rim; joined directly with blown, flattened knop and blown pedestal foot of double ogee profile with infolded edge and pontil mark. Domed, flanged cover, which has barely discernible mold blown pattern of squares, terminates in blown knop; joined by glue-bit to solid dumbbell finial of colorless glass. At apex of cover, pontil mark. Goblet is decorated with vertical bands of opaque white canes a fili separated by twists a retorti of alternately four and six threads. Cover is decorated with opaque white twists a retorti, with cables of alternately four and six strands. Edge of foot marked “II 59 9(?)6” in white lacquer.
Provenance
Strauss, Jerome, Former Collection to 1967
El Greco to Velazquez: Art During the Reign of Philip III
Venue(s)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2008-04-13 through 2008-07-27
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University 2008-08-22 through 2008-11-09
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2004-05-13 through 2004-10-17
 

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