Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Short, wide chalice, engraved with Asia, holding a bow; Europe with cornucopia and banner with the coat of arms of the House of Habsburg and the eight Electors; Africa in sun hat, seated on crocodile; America with feather skirt and headdress, arrow and coral, attended by elephant. Baluster stem with circular cut, and air bubble. Foot engraved with flowers.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- 1680–90
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Estate of James Hazen Hyde
- Medium
- Honeycomb-cut and engraved glass
- Dimensions
- H x diam.: 21 x 12.7 cm (8 1/4 x 5 in.)
- Type
- glasswares
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- Standing cup
- Type
- Standing cup
