Marriage Wager Cup in Shape of a Woman

Object Name: 
Marriage Wager Cup in Shape of a Woman

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Object Name: 
Marriage Wager Cup in Shape of a Woman
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Bohemia
Accession Number: 
2001.3.149
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 19 cm, W: 8 cm; Base Diam: 7.2 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1870
Credit Line: 
Gift of Jane Williams Mahoney
Primary Description: 
Clear bell shaped glass enameled "Wedding beaker". Decorated with armorial and white stars and "POTOCKI PILAWA 1643". The lower portion surmounted by a gold metal figure of a woman holding aloft brackets which hold a small similarly decorated glass tumbler.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Mahoney, Jane Williams, Source
2002-04-09
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
Blown, Tooled, Applied, Assembled, Gilded, Cut, Polished
tooling
assembling
gilding
cut glass
Inscription: 
POTOCKI PILAWA / 1643
Inscription

Publications (2)

Recent Important Acquisitions, 44 (2002) illustrated, p. 229, fig. 29; far right; BIB# AI64571
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 2001 (2002) illustrated, p. 14; BIB# AI93571