Objects
Glass- drinking
Alcohol
Consumption
[Taken from catalogue entry]
A goblet containing two uncirculated Charles II silver three-penny coins dated 1670 and 1671 in the stem, made of blown, applied, trailed, stamped and pattern-moulded 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 coins appear to have been uncirculated, with no wear, though this does not necessarily date the glass to then. The glass has been dated to c.1690-1710, suggesting the coins might have been kept for sometime by the owner.
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: from c. 1690
to c. 1710
Consumption
exact 1670
1671
Materials
Glass
Glass- flint
Museological Details
D.O.G/23
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