Pink and White Goblet

Cam Langley

1986

  • Titles Pink and White Goblet (Proper)
  • Artist Cam Langley, American, 1948 - 2013
  • Medium blown glass
  • Dimensions 8 x 3 in. Diam. (20.3 x 7.6 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Anonymous gift, AFI.67.2011, image © Cam Langley
  • Work Type goblet
  • Classification Containers

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"This all-white pitcher is enlived on both sides with relief-molded references to Bacchus. The wine god is portrayed in the guise of a nude child seated amid grape vines and displaying his attributes of a staff and a goblet of wine. These motifs suggest that the pitcher was intended for the dispensing of alcoholic beverages. The assymetrical compostiion of the design and the profusion of ornament – a scrolled medallion embellishing the front and leafage in relief decorating the foot and handle – derive directly from the vocabulary of the Rococo-revival style then at the height of its reign in America." From Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney. American Porcelain, 1770 - 1920. Exh. cat. New York, NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1989: no. 26, 119.