Tumbler

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Tumbler

Manufacturer New Bremen Glass Manufactory of John Frederick Amelung (American, 1784-1795)

Place of OriginProbably Europe; possibly United States, Maryland, New Bremen

Date1785-1800

Dimensions2 9/16 × 2 3/16 × 1 1/2 in. (6.5 × 5.5 × 3.8 cm)

Mediumnon-lead glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.275

Not on View

DescriptionBlown in a two-piece part-size mold patterned with eight rows of twenty-seven lateral diamonds above a row of twenty-seven pointed flutes. Plain base. Rough, solid pontil mark.

Published ReferencesWilson, 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. 783, no. 1324.