Goblet

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Object Name: 
Goblet
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice
Accession Number: 
79.3.1227
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 16.6 cm, Diam (rim): 10.2 cm; Diam (foot): 8.3 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1500-1599
Credit Line: 
Gift of The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation
Primary Description: 
Goblet. Colorless. Blown (two gathers); applied, tooled, gilded. Conical bowl with fire-polished rim; attached by merese to pedestal foot with infolded rim and pontil mark. Second gather applied to lower two-thirds of bowl and mold-blown with six pairs of vertical ribs, each pair pincered together near top. Just below rim, frieze of foliage framed, on top and bottom, by horizontal gilded lines.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Strauss Memorial Foundation, Ruth Bryan, Source
1979
Havermeyer, Mrs. H. O., Former Collection
1927
Strauss, Jerome (1893-1978), Former Collection
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
tooling
gilding
Material: 
glass
gold

Exhibitions (1)

Glass Drinking Vessels from the Strauss Collection
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1955-06-13 through 1955-10-23