Covered Goblet

Covered Goblet

 
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Object Name: 
Covered Goblet
Department
European
Category
Baroque
Place Made: 
Germany, Brandenburg, Potsdam, Potsdam
Date: 
about 1680-1700
Color
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colorless
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yellow
Technique
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glassblowing
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carving
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engraving
Material
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glass
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 28.9 cm; (a) Goblet H: 10.6 cm; (a) Goblet Foot Diam: 11.7 cm; (b) Cover H: 10.7 cm, Diam: 12 cm
Accession Number: 
79.3.299
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Jerome Strauss
Location: 
On Display
Description
Covered Goblet. Colorless (yellowish) non-lead glass; blown, carved, engraved. (a) Conical bowl decorated with relief-carved naturalistic flowers (tulips, fritilaria, and a lily), with partly polished details; stems composed of a flattened ball knop, an ovoid knop with carved and partly-polished overlapping leaves, and a flattened ball knop at the base; spreading foot with relief- carved sunflower on the upper surface, cross-hatched center extending onto the stem; cut, tapered rim; polished pontil mark. (b) Domed shape with cut, inset brim; relief-carved flowers on the side (tulips, daisies?, and roses?) and a sunflower on top (matching that on a); finial composed of an ovoid knop with relief-carved overlapping leaves and a flattened ball.
Provenance
Strauss, Jerome, Former Collection
1979
von Bardleben, K., Former Collection
Neuberg, Frederick, Former Collection
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
Changing Exhibitions Gallery
Glass Drinking Vessels from the Strauss Collection
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1955-06-13 through 1955-10-23
 
Glass of the Alchemists (2008) illustrated, pp. 232-233, #69; BIB# 103865
Important Acquisitions from the Strauss Collection (1980) illustrated, p. 108, #27;
Brandenburgische Glaser (1914) pl. 5, #3; BIB# 27884

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