Odd Fellows Goblet

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Object Name: 
Odd Fellows Goblet
Accession Number: 
94.4.159
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 20.7 cm; Rim Diam: 11.4 cm; Foot Diam: 11.8 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1860-1870
Primary Description: 
Colorless, red lead glass; blown, engraved. Ovoid bowl, colorless glass overlaid with red, engraved with a woman suckling two children, a face in a sun above a hand with a heart on the palm, a crescent moon with a vase above a bow and arrows, three columns above a three-link chain and an axe, a bundle of rods and an open book, a coffin and skull and crossbones above and hourglass, all surrounded with grapevines and leaves, above cut panels, applied baluster stem, overlaid and cut in panels, applied flat circular foot, also overlaid on the base and cut in rays, with a notched foot rim.
Department: 
Provenance: 
Russell, Mrs. Howell E., Source
1994-07-22
Russell, Howell E., Source
1994-07-22
Category: 
Recent Important Acquisitions, 37 (1995) illustrated, pp. 108-109, #26; BIB# AI36371