Tumbler

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Tumbler

Place of OriginUnited States, possibly the Midwest

Date1820-1840

Dimensions3 7/16 × 2 15/16 × 2 3/16 in. (8.7 × 7.5 × 5.6 cm)

Mediumcolorless glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.209

Not on View

DescriptionBlown in a mold (McKearin G.III-10, variant) of three vertical sections and a base plate (McKearin Petal Type II). Rim sheared and tooled to shape. Slightly rough pontil mark. Capacity: one-half pint.

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.III-10, p. 254, pl. 92; p. 308; p. 261, pl. 100, no. 3; p. 263, pl. 101, no. 2.

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. 236, no. 287.