Goblet

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Object Name: 
Goblet
Place Made: 
England
Accession Number: 
71.2.60
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 15.5 cm; Rim Diam: 8.2 cm; Base Diam: 7.9 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1680-1690
Primary Description: 
Goblet. Colorless lead glass; blown, applied, scratch engraved. Deep, ovoid bowl, with scratch- (diamond-point) engraved decoration of a lion passant guardant, two sprays of foliage with flowers, and a bird, above a band of repeated half-ovals; merese above a stem composed of a flattened, quatrefoil, hollow conical knop, a merese, a short straight section, swelling slightly at the base; folded conical foot; rough pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Davis, Cecil, Source
1971-12-13
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
Blown, scratch engraved
applied

Exhibitions (1)

The England of William Penn, 1644-1718
Venue(s)
Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University 1982-09-08 through 1982-10-31

Publications (2)

In Sparkling Company: Reflections on Glass in the 18th-century British World (2020) illustrated, p. 17 (fig. 4);
The England of William Penn, 1644-1718 (1982) p. 63; BIB# 22536