Lady Rivers Beaker

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Lady Rivers Beaker

Place of OriginNorthern Bohemia

Dateabout 1829

DimensionsH: 4 11/16 in. (11.9 cm); Rim Diam: 3 1/16 in. (7.8 cm); Diam: 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm)

MediumColorless, mold-blown glass with a slightly yellowish tinge; cut, engraved, ground, and polished.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

2006.45A

On View

Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion (2444 Monroe Street), Glass Pavilion Gallery, 4

DescriptionThe beaker is mold-blown of colorless glass, the straight-sided bowl tapering toward the base. Near the rim an engraved inscription in script " For My Journey With Lord Rivers And the H.G. Pitt Wiesbaden le 12 August 1829." Four relief-cut applied oval medallions below are engraved with three views of sites near Wiesbaden in Germany, "Der Kochbrunnen in Wiesbaden" (a hot spring fountain), the "Geisberg" mountain, "Die Platte" (a mountain in the Taunus region with a hunting castle erected by Duke William I. in 1823), the fourth medallion depicting a coat of arms, presumably that of Lady Rivers. Around the glass below the medallions is engraved in script "From A.B.F. to the Lady Rivers Baden Baden le 19 August 1829." Beneath the inscription is a band of small sharp diamonds. The applied solid circular foot consists of two steps, the thick edge of the base cut in relief with small strawberry diamonds. The bottom is cut with deep concentric rays.