Goblet
Manufacturer: New Bremen Glass Manufactory of John Frederick Amelung (American, 1784-1795)
Date: 1792
Dimensions:
H: 20.1 cm (7 15/16 in.); Rim Diam: 10.8 cm (4 1/4 in.); Base Diam: 13.25 cm (5 7/32 in.)
Medium: Colorless non-lead glass. Blown and finished by tooling. Copper-wheel-engraved decoration
Place of Origin: New Bremen, Maryland
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1961.2
Label Text:During the American colonial period, British policy ensured that British goods dominated the American market and discouraged colonial merchants who might dare to compete. When the Revolutionary War ended British rule with the Treaty of Paris in 1783, entrepreneurs like John Frederick Amelung (1741–1798) seized their opportunity.
Besides spawning interest in a domestic glass industry (glassmaking is often considered the new nation’s first industry), the Revolution also opened the profitable American market to continental European glassmakers. In the late 1780s and 1790s enormous quantities of German, Bohemian, and British glass were shipped across the Atlantic. Amelung produced magnificent presentation glasses like this one as proof of his skill as an American glassmaker. The goblet, which originally had a cover, is inscribed “G. F. Mauerhoff” and “New Bremen. State of Maryland / Frederik County. 1792.” The identity of Mauerhoff is unknown.
Besides spawning interest in a domestic glass industry (glassmaking is often considered the new nation’s first industry), the Revolution also opened the profitable American market to continental European glassmakers. In the late 1780s and 1790s enormous quantities of German, Bohemian, and British glass were shipped across the Atlantic. Amelung produced magnificent presentation glasses like this one as proof of his skill as an American glassmaker. The goblet, which originally had a cover, is inscribed “G. F. Mauerhoff” and “New Bremen. State of Maryland / Frederik County. 1792.” The identity of Mauerhoff is unknown.
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