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Tumbler
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About this work
Small beakers, or tumblers, were used to drink various types of spirits, cordials, and fortified wines, like sherry and port. “Gold between glass” ( Zwischengoldglas ) was a labor-intensive and costly technique practiced in Bohemia (present-day Czech Republic) and Austria in the 1700s. A gold-leaf design was affixed between two glass vessels that were then precisely fit together and fused. In this example, the gold leaf portrays a boisterous hunting scene. When the glass is tipped and emptied, the interior reveals that two hunting dogs have killed a hare.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineTumbler, c. 1730. Bohemia. Zwischengoldglas (glass); diameter: 9 x 7.7 cm (3 9/16 x 3 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Twenty-fifth anniversary gift of Paul Drey, 1941.59
