The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 24, 2025

Dark green glass goblet with a smooth, round cup faded to a murky white with hazy green and gold mostly around the edges. A cylindrical base begins the stem, with columns of two dollops of glass encircling, occasionally dark green, occasionally faded white and splattered with cream color. A narrow stem extends from this. The stem extends up from concentric rings like ripples before flaring like a splash where it meets the cylinder.

Goblet (Berkemeyer)

c. 1525–50

Germany

green glass
Overall: 12.6 cm (4 15/16 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1991.16
Location: 101A Prints & Drawings

Description

Green goblets were frequently used for white wine, since the color was thought to enhance the wine’s golden shade. This goblet ornamented with prunts, or glass blobs, has a funnel-shaped mouth and was typical of German and Netherlandish manufacture in the 1500s and 1600s. The green color, caused by iron impurities in the local sand, is typical of Waldglas (“forest glass” in German), made in the forests of Central Europe.
  • Karl Amendt, Krefeld; Biemann, Zurich; (Rainer Zietz, London).
  • In Vino Veritas (In Wine, Truth). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 7, 2025-January 11, 2026).
  • {{cite web|title=Goblet (Berkemeyer)|url=false|author=|year=c. 1525–50|access-date=24 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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