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Tumbler
The collection record classifies this work as glass. It is dated c. 1730. Recorded culture or place: Bohemia.
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- Museum title
- Tumbler
- Date
- c. 1730
- Culture / origin
- Bohemia
- Materials and technique
- zwischengoldglas (glass)
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 9 x 7.7 cm (3 9/16 x 3 1/16 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1941.59
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
Small beakers, or tumblers, were used to drink various types of spirits, cordials, and fortified wines, like sherry and port. “Gold between glass” (Zwischengoldglas) was a labor-intensive and costly technique practiced in Bohemia (present-day Czech Republic) and Austria in the 1700s. A gold-leaf design was affixed between two glass vessels that were then precisely fit together and fused. In this example, the gold leaf portrays a boisterous hunting scene. When the glass is tipped and emptied, the interior reveals that two hunting dogs have killed a hare.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Twenty-fifth anniversary gift of Paul Drey · CC0
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