Goblet

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Object Name: 
Goblet
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice
Accession Number: 
79.3.484
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 12.1 cm; Rim Diam: 4.7 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1675-1725
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Jerome Strauss
Primary Description: 
Goblet. Colorless, translucent yellow, opaque white. Blown; applied, tooled. Conical bowl with fire-polished rim, joined by merese to blown stem with disk and inverted baluster; attached by glue-bit to shallow, blown foot with infolded rim and pontil mark; two applied ear shaped handles of translucent yellow glass. Bowl is decorated with trailed and feathered opaque white threading; handles have trailed colorless decoration pincered into series of waffle-patterned pads.

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Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Strauss, Jerome (1893-1978), Former Collection
1979
Color: 
colorless
opaque white glass
yellow
translucency
yellow
Technique: 
glassblowing
applied decoration
tooling
Material: 
glass

Publications (1)

The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian Glassworking (2016) illustrated BIB# 149619