Goblet

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Object Name: 
Goblet
Place Made: 
Netherlands
Europe
Accession Number: 
63.3.33
Dimensions: 
H: 29.2 cm, W (base): 5.2 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1770-1790
Primary Description: 
Colorless (yellowish-green tint) non-lead glass; blown, diamond- stippled and scratched. Large bell-shaped bowl, with multiple bubbles in the base; the sides with large rectangular panel of diamond-stippled decoration of a man, wearing a soft hat with scratched ostrich feathers, playing a violin; hollow stem with two bulbous knops above an inverted baluster; spreading, circular foot; rough pontil mark.

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Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Nystad, S., Source
Color: 
Colorless (yellow-green tint)
Technique: 
blown, diamond-stippled, scratched

Publications (1)

Recent Important Acquisitions, 6 (1964) illustrated, p. 167, #48; BIB# AI97744