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Footed Cup with handle: Scheuer

ca. 1500–1525
On view at The Met Cloisters in Gallery 10
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.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Footed Cup with handle: Scheuer
  • Date: ca. 1500–1525
  • Geography: Made in Lower or Middle Rhine, Germany
  • Culture: German
  • Medium: Free-blown glass with applied decoration
  • Dimensions: 4 3/4 × 4 3/16 × 3 9/16 in. (12 × 10.6 × 9 cm)
    Diam. of foot: 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm)
  • Classification: Glass-Vessels
  • Credit Line: The Cloisters Collection, 2013
  • Object Number: 2013.648
  • Curatorial Department: Medieval Art and The Cloisters

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