Goblet

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Object Name: 
Goblet
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice
Accession Number: 
79.3.459
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 15 cm; Rim Diam: 7.4 cm; Foot Diam: 9 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1676-1689
Credit Line: 
Gift of The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation
Primary Description: 
Goblet. Colorless. Blown; tooled; silver coin. Goblet. Slightly flaring, almost cylindrical bowl with fire-polished rim, attached by glue-bit to stem with blown knop containing silver coin of Pope Innocent XI (1676–1689) surmounting four flattened and graduated (largest at top) knops, and short, tapering section at base; joined by glue-bit [capstan?] to shallow, blown foot with infolded rim and pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Brown, Henry (English), Former Collection
Strauss Memorial Foundation, Ruth Bryan, Source
1979
Category: 
Renaissance
Color: 
colorless
silver
Technique: 
glassblowing
tooling
Material: 
glass
silver

Exhibitions (1)

Three Great Centuries of Venetian Glass
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass

Publications (2)

The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian Glassworking (2016) illustrated, Fig. 1; BIB# 149619
Three Great Centuries of Venetian Glass (1958) pp. 96-97, #102; BIB# 63296

Multimedia (1)

Wineglass with Coin in Stem
Video