Agria 39. (Az Egri Múzeum Évkönyve - Annales Musei Agriensis, 2003)

Váradi Adél: Karikával díszített későközépkori üvegkehely az egri várból

of the conical upper part of the fragile pale blue glass runs a thin rib above which there are two handles through which two green glass rings are threaded, one to each handle. In the permanent exhibition reorganized in 2001 the glass is recorded as being an "antique Roman glass", and it was as such that it appeared in the album published especially to mark the 450th anniversary of the defence of the castle. In our opinion, however, a more careful inspection of the object leads one to an altogether different conclusion. From the fragments it was possible to reconstruct the entire bowl of the glass. However, in the absence of a bottom to the glass it was thought that a reappraisal was necessary based in the supposition that the glass had a foot, thus giving it the form of a goblet. Whilst no Roman conical-type glass drinking cups take the form of the Eger glass, some interesting parallels can be found in 16th and 17th Venetian glassware and its imitators. The discovery, following chemical analysis, that the Eger ring-decorated glass wasn't soda glass proved beyond doubt that it wasn't Venetian. Analysis of its constituent materials concluded instead that it was potash glass, in other words Waldglas, and consequentally of continental origin. Based on the analogies we know of the Eger ring-decorated drinking cup "à la façon de Venise " we сап imagine it once having had a simple green hollow baluster stem. The Eger drinking cup is a fine example of Venetian-inspired (material, form, colour, ornament) forest glass. It would have been made north of the Alps some time between the second half of the 16th century and the end of the 17th century. It was most probably a product of a Transylvanian or Upper Hungarian glassworks working in the Venetian style, and active from the end of the 16th century until the first third of the 17th century. 213