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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Wine goblet
Object name
Wine goblet
Date
1969-1986
Medium
Silver
Dimensions
Overall: 6 1/8 x 3 1/8 in. ( 15.6 x 7.9 cm )
Description
Silver wine goblet with a deep, circular tapered bowl on a tapered five sided stem, each flaring to a ball end at the pedestal; slightly domed stepped foot; maker's mark stamped on the base.
Credit Line
Gift of Juan Pliego
Object Number
2000.175
Marks
stamped: on the base: "PLIEGO" below a two-faced Mexican Venus between two scrolls, all in an elongated hexagon
Gallery Label
Juan Agustin Antonio Pliego Coonejo was born in Tolus Estado, Mexico. Pliego came to New York in 1965 and studied graphic desi