Goblet

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Object Name: 
Goblet
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Netherlands (engraving)
England (glass)
Accession Number: 
79.3.245
Dimensions: 
H: 20.6 cm; D(rim): 8.7 cm, (foot): 9.1 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1764
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Jerome Strauss
Primary Description: 
Colorless lead glass; blown, engraved. Round funnel bowl, delicately engraved on one side with the figure of a standing woman holding a basket of flowers, inscribed in a ribband above "HET WELVAREN VAN FLORA"; on the reverse, a man, seated at a table, talking with his son, inscribed in a ribband above "ANNO. 1764."; composite stem composed of a dumb-bell-shaped section containing a multi-spiral air twist above a section composed of an inverted baluster with basal knop, containing a long air bead; disk foot, inscribed in diamond point "Jacob Sang, Fec - Amsterdam, 1764,"; rough pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Strauss, Jerome (1893-1978), Source
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
Blown, Engraved

Publications (3)

Hikari no shouchu: sekai no garasu = The glass (1992) p. 44, #69; BIB# 58995
English Glass from the Strauss Collection (1980-04) illustrated, p. 314, fig. 10; BIB# AI7962
Important Acquisitions from the Strauss Collection (1980) illustrated, p. 110, #36; BIB# AI9181