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Goblet

 
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Object Name: 
Goblet
Department
European
Place Made: 
probably Venice
Date: 
about 1500
Color
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blue
AAT
colorless
Technique
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glassblowing
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blow molding
Material
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glass
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 21.4 cm, Diam (rim): 9 cm, Diam (foot): 11.8 cm
Accession Number: 
79.3.226
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Jerome Strauss
Location: 
On Display
Description
Goblet. Colorless, translucent dark blue. Blown, mold-blown. Slightly tapering, almost cylindrical bowl with fire-polished rim and projecting base; joined by glue-bit to composite stem with mold-blown (12 ribs) knop; attached by colorless glue-bit to mold-blown (12 ribs) pedestal foot with infolded rim and pontil mark. Both knop and foot are made of translucent dark blue glass, and they show traces of scattered gold-leaf decoration.
Provenance
Strauss, Jerome, Source to 1979

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