Goblet

Goblet

 
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Object Name: 
Goblet
Department
European
Place Made: 
Netherlands (engraved)
Date: 
1803
Color
AAT
colorless
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 15.5 cm; Rim Diam: 8.7 cm
Accession Number: 
79.2.381
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Jerome Strauss
Location: 
On Display
Description
Colorless lead glass; blown, diamond-point engraved. Ovoid bowl with scratch-engraved decoration of an elaborate border of fruit and flowers between bands of repeated circles, arcs, and points; interrupted at three points by rectangular panels, each holding a cornucopia spilling fruit and flowers downward; three vignettes on the side of the bowl: one, a figure of Mercury holding a caduceus and wine bottle, sitting on a bale inscribed "V L D J", another with a barrel inscribed "100" on the end, and the third, a bale inscribed "RUA / DE"; drawn, straight stem; conical foot with rough pontil mark.
Inscription
V L D J
Inscription
:
AHoevenaar.fecit 1803
Inscription
:
edge of foot
RUA / DE
Inscription
:
100
Inscription
:
Provenance
Strauss, Jerome, Source
1979-03-22

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