Goblet

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Object Name: 
Goblet
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Germany, possibly Thuringia
Accession Number: 
88.3.46
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 24.5 cm; Rim Diam: 10 cm; Foot Diam: 11.6 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1675-1699
Credit Line: 
Gift in memory of Paula Sophie Niese Sieker by her daughter Elise Julia Sieker Walker and Family
Primary Description: 
Colorless, non-lead Glass; blown, engraved. Large ovoid bowl; copper-wheel engraved with a calligraphic inscription, "Unusquisq(ue) Fortuna sua faber" (Everyone is the smith of his own fortune); tall stem composed of multiple knops, with two sets of three sharp mereses, above a hollow flattened ball knop, another triple-merese knop, a squat hollow baluster knop, and another triple-disk merese at the bottom; spreading, circular foot with folded rim; engraved wreath of foliage encircling the foot; rough pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Walker, Elise Julia Sieker, Former Collection
Walker, Mrs. Warren, Source
Category: 
Baroque
Color: 
green
colorless
gray
Technique: 
glassblowing
engraving
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (1)

Glass of the Alchemists: Lead Crystal-Gold Ruby, 1650–1750
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
Changing Exhibitions Gallery

Publications (2)

Recent Important Acquisitions, 31 (1989) illustrated, pp. 104-105, #10; BIB# AI23357
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1988 (1989) illustrated, pp. 6-7; BIB# AI96381