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Tumbler

Place of OriginProbably United States

Date1880-1900

DimensionsH: 10.0 cm (3 15/16 in.); Rim Diam: 7.1 cm (2 13/16 in.); Base Diam: 6.2 cm (2 7/16 in.)

MediumDense opal non-lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. E. M. Belknap

Object number

1965.195

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upright in a female mold of three vertical sections bearing the so-called waffle pattern, with a base plate bearing a pattern of eighteen round-ended rays surrounding an open circle, all within a recess that formed the underside of the perimeter of the base, with a one-piece cylindrical cap ring that formed the plain broad rim, by a plain male plunger. Rim lightly fire-polished. No pontil mark.

Published ReferencesBelknap, E. M., Milk Glass, New York, Crown, 1949, repr. p. 222, no. 205a.

Welker, John and Elizabeth Welker, Pressed Glass in America; Encyclopedia of the First Hundred Years, 1825-1925, Ivyland, PA, Antique Acres Press, 1985, p. 254, fig. 8-51, top row, third from left.

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. 508, no. 851.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Belknap Collection of Milk Glass, exh. cat., 1965.