Tumbler

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Tumbler

Place of OriginEastern United States

Dateabout 1830

Dimensions2 5/8 × 2 1/2 × 1 3/4 in. (6.6 × 6.3 × 4.4 cm)

Mediumcolorless glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.210

Not on View

DescriptionBlown in a mold (McKearin G.II-18) of three vertical sections and a base plate (McKearin Rayed Type IV). Rim sheared and tooled to shape, which forced the upper row of vertical ribs into a slight diagonal to the left. Slightly, rough pontil mark. Capacity: about a gill (4 ounces).

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Web, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, Mass., author, 1947, pl. 40, bottom right.

References 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. 28; p. 306.

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. 234, no. 283.