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Wine glass

Place of Originprobably New England

Date1820-1830

Dimensions4 1/8 × 2 1/16 × 2 1/2 in. (10.5 × 5.2 × 6.3 cm)

Mediumcolorless glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.215

Not on View

DescriptionBowl blown and finished by tooling. Joined by a solid cylindrical stem with a medial button knop to a slightly domed foot with underfolded rim. Rough, solid pontil mark.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pp. 113-114, pl. 43, no. 7.

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, p. 207, fig. 158B; p. 240, fig. 199.

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. 188. no. 164.