Objects
Glass- drinking
Alcohol
Consumption
Healths, pledging, and drinking rituals
[Taken from catalogue entry]
A goblet commemorating the coronation of King George I and scratch-engraved with the fall of Adam and Eve, dated 1716. It is made of blown and blow-moulded colourless lead glass, diamond-point engraved. Relief moulded around the top of the stem are the words ‘GOD SAVE KING GEORGE’.
The scratch-engraved decoration depicts Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden from Genesis 1-3. The moment shown is the Fall, after Adam accepts the fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil from Eve. A crowned serpent is entwined around the tree trunk. This is a typical depiction of this scene, though Adam and Eve are usually shown the other way round. Below this scene is engraved 1716.
Eleven animals are scattered around the bowl, including a camel, stag, horse, lion, spotted ox, boar, fox, dog, squirrel, doe and a crouching rabbit, and eleven small trees.
Depictions of Adam and Eve were commonly found in a variety of mediums in this period, including ceramics, prints and needlework. There are a number of other glasses with similar decoration (see Lanmon refs).
Lanmon, The Golden Age of English Glass 1650-1775 (Crab Tree Farm, 2011), pp. 152-53, figs. 85, 86, 87a-d, 88.
Production
Dates of Production: 1716
England
Materials
Glass- flint
Museological Details
D.O.G/25
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