Footed Cup with handle: Scheuer
Unknown
ca. 1500–1525 · Free-blown glass with applied decoration · The Cloisters
The shape of this drinking glass, with its forked handle, imitates that of more expensive cups of gold or silver. In metalwork, the protruding element was conceived as a thumb rest, allowing the drinker to steady the cup; the use of this same design for glass seems almost reckless. It is extraordinary that this fragile cup has survived.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- ca. 1500–1525
- Medium
- Free-blown glass with applied decoration
- Culture
- German
- Department
- The Cloisters
- Credit line
- The Cloisters Collection, 2013
