Word: goblets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what one contemporary called "a sweet contest of nature and of man," Murano's craftsmen reached their greatest peak as they learned to twist glass into all manner of sizes and shapes. At its best, as in the dragon stem goblet (opposite), the Venetian artists managed to capture the same excitement in movement and space that held Tinoretto entranced. This Venetian love of bravura effects reached a flamboyant finale just before the development of heavy potash glass in Germany and lead glass in England broke Venice's near monopoly. Glass blowers made wine goblets in the forms...
...primarily to talk with the President on the problems and promises of the world. But along his word-strewn way he shook a multitude of hands, graced a dozen receptions, closeted himself a dozen times with dozens of officials, dined with Eleanor Roosevelt, lunched with Dag Hammarskjold, raised his goblet of orange juice in dozens of toasts, changed the tiny, ubiquitous rose in his ubiquitous achkan dozens of times...
...with the Symphony of the Air (conducted by Leonard Bernstein) in Carnegie Hall. Her part, the ingenue Sophie, is filled with some of the most ecstatic vocalization ever set on paper, and she followed it with a voice that had the rich but fine-drawn quality of a crystal goblet...
...product, a fruity concoction of trade secrets (rumored to be apricot brandy and bourbon), is a favorite of elderly ladies, is sometimes served with cracked ice and a canned peach in a solid-stemmed goblet...
...ritual bronzes, semiabstractions of dragons and sundry monsters, mellowed by the patina of the centuries. It was the age of the pieces, dating back to the Yin dynasty, that most impressed the nonexpert art lovers. But it was their forms, especially one unique three-legged chüeh (wine goblet) of the Yin period, that delighted the connoisseurs. Said Florence's aged (89) art oracle, Expatriate Bernard Berenson: "The best collection of Chinese bronzes ever brought together under one roof in Europe...