Goblet

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Object Name: 
Goblet
Place Made: 
England
Accession Number: 
79.2.77
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 18.3 cm; Diam (max): 7.6 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1720
Credit Line: 
Gift of The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation
Primary Description: 
Goblet. Colorless lead glass; blown, applied. Thistle-shaped bowl, solid at the base; heavy baluster stem with a large mushroom above a ball knop, with air bubbles in both knops; folded foot; rough pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Strauss Memorial Foundation, Ruth Bryan, Source
1979-03-22
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
blown
applied

Exhibitions (1)

Title Unknown (Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum)
Venue(s)
Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum

Publications (5)

In Sparkling Company: Reflections on Glass in the 18th-century British World (2020) illustrated, p. 17 (fig. 5);
Y'oroppa amerika no ant'iku garasu : shiru, kau, kataru, kansh'osura (2002) illustrated, p. 57; BIB# 74885
The Corning Museum of Glass, A Guide to the Collections (2001) (2001) illustrated, p. 84, right; BIB# 68214
Hikari no shouchu: sekai no garasu = The glass (1992) p. 36, #54; BIB# 58995
English Glass from the Strauss Collection (1980-04) illustrated, pp. 311-312, fig. 2; BIB# AI7962