Tumbler

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Tumbler

Place of OriginUnited States, probably Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Date1850-1860

DimensionsH: 3 7/16 in. (8.7 cm); Rim Diam: 3 9/32 in. (8.3 cm); Base Diam: 2 9/32 in. (5.8 cm)

MediumCobalt-blue lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.11

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upright in a female mold of an indeterminate number of vertical sections bearing the so-called almond pattern, with a base plate with a low broad boss that formed the underside of the base, probably with a cap ring that formed the rim and the area above the upper row of arches, by a plain male plunger. Rim tooled and heavily fire-polished. Evidence of a fine sand pontil mark around circular depression in base.

Published ReferencesKnittle, Rhea Mansfield, Early American Glass, New York, Century, 1927, pl. 38, lower left; p. xxi, no. 38.

Lee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, Mass., author, 1947, p. 190 (almond, pointed thumbprint, or fingerprint pattern), form no. 12, pl. 154, no. 14 (drawing of a goblet in this pattern).

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. 465, no. 747.