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Tumbler

ManufacturerPossibly Boston and Sandwich Glass Works (American, 1826-1888)

Place of OriginUnited States, possibly Sandwich, Massachusetts

Date1825-1840

Dimensions2 11/16 × 2 3/8 × 1 15/16 in. (6.9 × 6 × 5 cm)

Mediumcolorless glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.211

Not on View

DescriptionBlown in a mold (McKearin G.III-8) of three vertical sections and a base plate (McKearin Rayed Type VI.A). Upper part and rim sheared and tooled to shape, which twisted the upper row of vertical ribs slightly to the right. Rough, solid pontil mark. Capacity: about 1 gill (4 ounces).

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Web, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, Mass., author, 1947, p. 185, pl. 43, second from 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.III-8, p. 254, pl. 92; p. 261, pl. 100, no. 30; pl. 106, no. 5; p. 267; p. 269; p. 263, pl. 101, no. 1; p. 308.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1950; rev. ed., 1966, pl. 79, 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. 235, no. 286.