Tumbler

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Tumbler

Place of Originprobably New England

Date1820-1840

Dimensions5 9/16 × 4 1/2 × 3 3/16 in. (14.2 × 11.5 × 8.1 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Florence Scott Libbey

Object number

1912.34

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DescriptionColorless glass with a slightly gray tinge. Blown in a mold (McKearin G.II-18) for a decanter of three vertical sections and a base plate (McKearin Diamond Type XIV). Rim sheared and tooled to shape. Rough, solid pontil mark. Capacity: about 1 quart.

Published ReferencesReferences to glass classifications established in McKearin, George S., and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948.

McKearin, Helen and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978; etc., G.II-18, p. 251, pl. 88; p. 261, pl. 100, no. 18; p. 306.

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, p. 270, fig. 224, left.

Wilson, Kenneth M., American Glass, 1760-1930: The Toledo Museum of Art, New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, [Lanham, Md.]: National Book Network [distributor], c1994; 2 v. (879 p.): ill. (some col.); 32 cm., 1994, p. 235, no. 284.