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Object Name:

Covered Filigree Goblet

Place Made:

Italy, probably Venice

Accession Number:

79.3.174

Dimensions:

Overall H: 27.7 cm; (b) Cover Diam (max): 9.5 cm

Location:

On Display

Date:

1670-1720

Credit Line:

Gift of The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation

Primary Description:

Covered Filigree Goblet. Colorless, with purplish tinge; opaque white. Vetro a reticello. Goblet with cover. Conical bowl of goblet has fire polished rim and rounded base; joined by thin, colorless glue-bit and colorless merese to blown stem composed of small, flattened knop atop inverted baluster; joined by merese to shallow, blown foot with infolded rim. Domed cover with projecting flange and pontil mark inside; finial is composed of blown, slightly flattened knop between two colorless mereses; above, blown conical knop with two constrictions. Except for mereses, all parts are decorated in vetro a reticello. Below foot, inscribed “21” in white enamel.