Goblet

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Object Name: 
Goblet
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, probably PA, Pittsburgh
Accession Number: 
59.4.11
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 13.6 cm; Rim Diam: 8.2 cm; Foot Diam: 7.8 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1825-1835
Primary Description: 
Goblet. Clear glass with few minute bubbles and impurities; free blown and cut; solid conical stem with overfolded rim extending almost to center of underside, blade knop stem flanked by two spools, shallow merese between stem and ovoid bowl; on the bowl a cut frieze of a row of strawberry diamonds framed at bottom by a groove, and having on top palmettes in the intermediate spaces.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern; Modern
Provenance: 
Grossman, John, Former Collection
Rose, James (1899-1975), Source
1959-05-18
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
cutting
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (1)

American Glass
Venue(s)
Gmeiner Art Center 1972-03 through 1972-03

Publications (2)

Un guide pour la datation de la verrerie de table des annees 1800 a 1940 (2001) Fig. 41, left, p. 210; BIB# 96483
Studies in Material Culture Research (2000) illustrated, p. 180, fig. 41; BIB# 71763