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

Goblet | Chalice

CultureEuropean

Dateca. 1850

MediumCut glass

DimensionsOverall: 7 in. (17.8 cm)
Overall, Rim: 4 in. (10.2 cm)

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number71.6122

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 115-1

DescriptionGoblet or chalice in the Biedermeier style. Green vaseline (Annagrun -- "uranium glass") color. Hexagonally cut panel vessel with each panel engraved with different sprays of flowers. Heavy solid hexagonally cut baluster stem and thick base also hexagonally scalloped cut top and bottom. Same color as GAN.63.10.

Published ReferencesSpiegel, BIEDERMEIER GLASER, p. 109.