Small Tumbler or Shot Glass

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Small Tumbler or Shot Glass

ManufacturerPossibly M'Kee and Brothers (American, 1854-1901, 1904-1910)

Date1855-1870

DimensionsH: 2 3/16 in. (5.5 cm); Rim Diam: 2 3/32 in. (5.3 cm); Base Diam: 1 9/16 in. (4.0 cm)

MediumElectric-blue lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.3

Not on View

DescriptionPressed, probably upright, in a female mold with an undetermined number of vertical sections bearing a pattern of eight flutes, with a base plate with a low boss in the center that formed the underside of the base, with a cap ring that formed the top of the rim, by a plain male plunger. No fire-polishing. No pontil mark.

Published ReferencesInnes, Lowell, Pittsburgh Glass, 1791-1891: A History and Guide for Collectors, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1976, p. 309, fig. 331 (repr. of H. L. Ringwalt's 2nd Annual Circular, January 1, 1860, no. 10).

M'Kee and Brothers, M'Kee Victorian Glass: Five Complete Glass Catalogs from 1859/60 to 1871, ed. with intro. and text by Lowell Innes and Jane S. Spillman, Corning, N.Y., and New York, Corning Museum of Glass in association with Dover, 1981, p. 55 (repr. of page from M'Kee 1864 trade catalogue, center: "Toy Tumbler").

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. 464, no. 745.