Goblet
Object NameGoblet
Date1765-1775
OriginEngland or Netherlands
MediumGlass
Dimensions9 1/2 × 3 1/2 × 3 1/2 in. diameter (24.1 × 8.9 × 8.9 cm)
ClassificationsDecorative Arts, Glass
Credit LineGift of Ann and Henry Brunnier. In the Ann and Henry Brunnier Collection, Brunnier Art Museum, University Museums, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
Object number3.8.15
Status
Not on viewCollections
CultureEnglish
Label TextThe process of stippling was utilized widely in Europe during the seventeenth century to embellish glass, gaining its height of popularity in the last quarter of the eighteenth century. By striking a diamond or hardened-steel point against the glass, artists produced a series of tiny shallow dots (stipples) on the surface of the glass to generate the desired image. The intensity or clarity of the form varies with the closeness of the dots, allowing the stippler to create very subtle, almost ghost-like images, such as those on this wineglass.
Possibly created in England and stippled in the Netherlands, this exquisite glass depicts a chinoiserie scene of a man and woman in a garden. The woman holds sheet music while the man plays a stringed instrument. Evidently the goblet was a prized possession, for it was broken more then a century ago, and a nineteenth-century silver stem-mount was fashioned to rejoin the goblet's original bowl and foot.
Locations
- (not entered) Iowa State University, Brunnier Main Storage
