Objects
Glass- drinking
Alcohol
Consumption
[Taken from catalogue entry]
A goblet containing a heavily worn George I silver coin dated 1723 in the hollow globular cavity in the stem, made of blown colourless lead glass.
The inclusion of coins into the stem of a drinking glass suggests that there was some sort of meaningful thought behind it, though this meaning is rarely clear or documented.
While the coins may be evidence for the dating of the object, they are generally quite unreliable, as they might have been added at any point after their minting. Sometimes the level of wear on the coin has been used to indicate how long after the coin was minted the glass was made. In this case it has been noted that the coin exhibits heavy wear suggesting it had been in circulation for many years before the glass was made, which supports the dating of the goblet as c.1730.
This type of glass, collectively described as drinking glasses with heavy-baluster stems, referring to the ‘knops’ or shaped balls found on the glass stems. These ‘heavy baluster’ stems have been seen as representative of the Baroque style in glassware.
Production
Dates of Production: circa 1730
exact 1723
England
Materials
Glass
Glass- flint
Museological Details
D.O.G/20
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