<em>Straight Sided Fluoric Acid Engraved Goblet</em>, ca. 1791. Glass, 8 1/8 x 3 5/8 in. (20.6 x 9.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Purchased by Special Subscription and Museum Collection Fund, 13.795. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 13.795_view1_acetate_bw.jpg)

Straight Sided Fluoric Acid Engraved Goblet, ca. 1791. Glass, 8 1/8 x 3 5/8 in. (20.6 x 9.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Purchased by Special Subscription and Museum Collection Fund, 13.795. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 13.795_view1_acetate_bw.jpg)

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Straight Sided Fluoric Acid Engraved Goblet

Decorative Arts and Design

Dutch artists became important engravers in the Renaissance and were pre-eminent by the seventeenth century. Here, a diamond point stylus has been applied to decorate glass in an impressionistic manner.

MEDIUM Glass

DATES ca. 1791

DIMENSIONS 8 1/8 x 3 5/8 in. (20.6 x 9.2 cm) base: 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm) (show scale)

COLLECTIONS Decorative Arts and Design

ACCESSION NUMBER 13.795

CREDIT LINE Purchased by Special Subscription and Museum Collection Fund

MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view

CAPTION Straight Sided Fluoric Acid Engraved Goblet, ca. 1791. Glass, 8 1/8 x 3 5/8 in. (20.6 x 9.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Purchased by Special Subscription and Museum Collection Fund, 13.795. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 13.795_view1_acetate_bw.jpg)

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