Goblet

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Object Name: 
Goblet
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice
Accession Number: 
79.3.488
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 15.1 cm; Rim Diam: 9.8 cm; Foot Diam: 7.8 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1500-1599
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Jerome Strauss
Primary Description: 
Goblet. Colorless, with yellowish green tinge; bubbles, some dark inclusions. Blown. Sharply everted bell-shaped bowl with widely flaring, fire-polished rim; joined by merese to blown stem with small baluster atop larger inverted baluster; attached by glue-bit [capstan?] to shallow, blown foot with fire-polished rim and pontil mark.

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Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Strauss, Jerome (1893-1978), Former Collection
1979
Color: 
colorless
yellow
green
Technique: 
glassblowing
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (1)

A Cup of Kindness
Venue(s)
General Foods Collection Gallery 1984-02-01 through 1984-05-01

Publications (1)

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