New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.

Covered Goblet

Manufacturer Unknown

CultureGerman

Dateca. 1730

MediumBlown glass

DimensionsOverall: 13 7/8 in. (35.2 cm)
Overall, Rim: 3 15/16 in. (10 cm)
Base: 4 5/8 in. (11.7 cm)

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number71.6860

Collections

Glass Art

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On view

DescriptionCovered pokal/goblet of clear glass. Pokal/goblet of clear glass. Thistle shaped solid bottom. Facet cut and enclosing three rows of bubbles. On a solid stem with a larger knop. Facet cut. With three rows of bubbles, then panel cut to a smaller facet cut knop on a dome facet cut foot. Bowl is engraved deeply with a scene of Vulgan's Forge. Oval cut band at rim. Cover of clear glass. Dome facet and panel cut top. Near rim, one side is engraved with two flags, a drum and weapons. Finial repeats large solid knop facet cut. With three rows of bubbles topped with a smaller facet cut ball.

Published ReferencesCorning, _Journal of Glass Studies, XIV_, 1972, ill. pg. 128, of Crispin de Passe print of the 1607 edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses, shows this adaptation without Venus-rest similar. Corning, _Journal of Glass Studies_, I, 1959, pg. 112, similar perhaps by Elias Rosbach. Koln Museum Catalog, _Glas_, 1963, pg. 153, #345, similar engraved scene after a 1546 engraving by Cornelis Bos which is of a 1536 painting by Martin van Heemskerck.