Current Location: In storage
Titles
Mercantile Goblet
Maker(s)
Glassmaker:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
Mercantile goblet/linen industry goblet. Clear glass, cut, wheel-engraved and gilt. Ogee bowl, the lower part cut in relief with four shell or anthemions; facetted knop over a facetted stem; circular, slightly domed foot. The glass is broken off the stem below the knop. The bowl is decorated with Mercury and Neptune beneath a lady and gentleman seated in a loggia; men with a large package beside a warehouse, with above the interior with spinning and weaving in progress; and Italianate buildings beside a quay with a cart approaching from the left, and a merchant ship moored alongside. The foot is cut on the underside with alternating oval and straight cuts.
Notes
History note: Viktor Schick, Prague; Mrs Hedwig Schick; Sotheby's, 4th May, 1939, Catalogue of the well-known collection of fine Continental glass formed by the late Viktor Schick, Esq., of Prague, The property of Mrs Hedwig Schick, p. 16, lot 54, a linen industry goblet, then with cover; Henry Scipio Reitlinger; The Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead
Legal notes
Bequeathed by Henry Scipio Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991.
Measurements and weight
Height: 14.7 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1950)
by
Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Dating
18th Century, Mid#
Circa
1745
CE
-
1755
CE
Note
Engraving is in the style of Gottfried Schneider
School or Style
Rococo
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Glass
composed of
clear glass
Decoration
composed of
gilt
Foot
Diameter 10.0 cm
Rim
Diameter 9.2 cm
Bowl
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.369-1991
Primary reference Number: 27858
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020
Last processed: Thursday 7 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
