Goblet

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Object Name: 
Goblet
Place Made: 
England
Accession Number: 
79.2.69
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 20.6 cm; Rim Diam: 10.6 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1900-1925
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Jerome Strauss
Primary Description: 
Colorless lead glass; blown, engraved. Trumpet bowl on a drawn straight stem, enclosing an air bubble at the base; engraved male portrait on one side, enclosed in a foliate wreath; inscribed "C II R" on the reverse, with the Royal lion and unicorn supporters at either side; folded foot; rough pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Strauss, Jerome (1893-1978), Source
1979-03-22
Duke of Ormonde, Former Collection
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
Blown, Engraved
Inscription: 
C II R
Inscription
: 
on reverse

Publications (3)

English Glass from the Strauss Collection (1980-04) illustrated, p. 311-313, fig. 5; BIB# AI7962
Important Acquisitions from the Strauss Collection (1980) illustrated, p. 109, #34; BIB# AI9181
Old English Drinking Glasses: their chronology and sequence (1926) illustrated, pp. 153-154, pl. LVI; BIB# 27804