Goblet – The Muckley Goblet

The recipe for making glass has changed little for several thousands of years: sand, alkali ashes, and lime from crushed stones are melted together to give a strong, yet fragile material. This molten material can then be manipulated by the glassmaker in a number of ways.This English 19th century goblet was free blown, where air is blown down a metal tube which has a blob of glass at its end, this creates a bubble. The bubble of glass is then shaped using a variety of tools to create the desired form.The decoration was created using a method known as wheel engraving this process involves the grinding action of a wheel using disks of various materials and sizes.