Tumbler or Beaker

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Object Name: 
Tumbler or Beaker
Place Made: 
Germany
Bohemia
Accession Number: 
51.3.224
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 8.5 cm; Rim Diam (max): 7.5 cm; Base Diam (max): 5.8 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1730
Primary Description: 
Tumbler or Beaker. Colorless and milk-white glass; free-blown, gold and silver leaf and lacquered inset between outer colorless and inner milk-white glass. Straight sides spreading from smooth depressed base and cut in 18 panels; decoration: narrow gold band at top, silver leaf at bottom below central band depicting in gold and silver leaf, red lacquer and puce, medieval "tournament" tent in center, mounted duelists with upraised swords on one side and on the other, mounted duelists firing pistols.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Rosenberg and Stiebel, Source
1951-03-23
Neuberg, Frederick, Former Collection
Color: 
white
colorless
gold
silver
red
Technique: 
glassblowing
lacquering
cutting
Material: 
glass
gold leaf
silver leaf
lacquer

Exhibitions (1)

East Side Winter Antiques Show
Venue(s)
Park Avenue Armory

Publications (2)

Conservation Problems of Zwischengoldglas (1980) p. 17; BIB# AI9442
Treasures in Glass (1966) p. 44, #72; BIB# 28036