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Wine glass

Place of Originprobably United States

Date1820-1840

Dimensions4 × 2 3/16 × 2 7/16 in. (10.2 × 5.6 × 6.2 cm)

Mediumcolorless glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.214

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DescriptionBowl blown in a mold (McKearin G.II-19) of two or three vertical sections and a plain base plate. Rim sheared and tooled to shape. Applied solid tooled triangular knopped stem. Applied tooled foot. Rough pontil mark.

Published ReferencesHelen McKearin, "Fictions of 'Three-Mold' Glass," Antiques, vol. 16, December 1929, pp. 502-505, fig. 1, left (Reprint 1, pp. 67-70).

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., GII-19, p. 251, pl. 88; p. 267; pl. 106, no. 6; p. 310.

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. 237, no. 292.