Wineglass

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Object Name: 
Wineglass
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Netherlands (engraving)
England (glass)
Accession Number: 
79.3.236
Dimensions: 
H: 14 cm; D(rim): 6.6 cm, (foot): 7.8 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1795
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Jerome Strauss
Primary Description: 
Colorless lead glass; blown, cut, stipple-engraved. Ovoid bowl, with diamond-stipple decoration of a soldier, carrying a sword, greeting an older soldier, seated, at a liberty pole; signed below in stipple "D: Wolff 17 218 95" and inscribed at the bottom, right "Het Eerste Jaar der Bataafsche vryheid." and (on the reverse) the inscription (stipple, block-letters) "VRYHEID GELYKHEID BROEDERSCHAP/'T HEIL DER BEIDE NAATIEN/REIST!BATAVIER! ONS'HULP,/RUKT' U!UIT. SALVERNY:/GY!ZYT TANS VRY MET ONS:/EEN VRYIEN HOED,MAAKT BLEI."; panel-cut drawn stem; conical foot with rough pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Schick, Viktor, Former Collection
Strauss, Jerome (1893-1978), Source
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
blown, cut, stipple-engraved
cut glass

Exhibitions (2)

One Dot at a Time
Venue(s)
Steuben Glass, Inc. 1983-04-21 through 1983-05-14
Glass Drinking Vessels from the Strauss Collection
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1955-06-13 through 1955-10-23