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Winged Goblet

Winged Goblet

 
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Object Name: 
Winged Goblet
Department
European
Category
Renaissance
Baroque
Place Made: 
probably Venice
Date: 
1675-1725
Color
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grayish brown
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colorless
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turquoise
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opaque white glass
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yellow
Technique
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blow molding
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tooling
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applied decoration
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tooling
Material
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glass
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 18 cm; Rim Diam: 10.8 cm
Accession Number: 
2000.3.14
Location: 
On Display
Description
Winged Goblet. Colorless, with grayish brown tinge; translucent turquoise blue, lattimo, yellow. Blown, mold-blown; applied, tooled. Bucket-shaped bowl with flaring, fire-polished rim, and flat base with applied wavy band on perimeter; attached by merese and glue-bit to mold-blown stem consisting of four flattened and graduated (largest on top) ball knops atop inverted baluster; joined by glue-bit to shallow, blown foot with fire-polished rim and pontil mark. Stem is decorated with two ear-shaped and zigzag wings of blue glass, with trailed-on and pincered colorless glass mirroring zigzag shape of blue glass and pulled down toward foot as “legs.” Two flowers with seven curved petals of opaque white glass and yellow-topped pistils are applied to second ball knop between wings. Ring, gilded with gold leaf, applied to underside of foot about 0.6 cm inside rim.
Provenance
Christie's, Paris, Source to 2000-03-28
Recent Important Acquisitions, 43 (2001) illustrated, p. 201, fig. 18;
An Important Collection of Venetian and Facon deVenise Glass, sale #6272 (2000-03-28) p. 63, lot 149;

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