Toy Tumbler

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Toy Tumbler

Place of OriginNew England or Midwest

Date1845-1865

DimensionsH: 1 19/32 in. (4.05 cm); Rim Diam: 1 21/32 in. (4.2 cm); Base Diam: 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm)

MediumGreenish-yellow (so-called Vaseline) lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.4

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upright, probably in a one-piece female mold bearing a pattern of nine panels, with a base plate with a low boss in the center that formed the underside of the base, by a plain male plunger. Rim fire-polished. Rough circular pontil mark.

Published ReferencesSpillman, Jane S., American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Museum of Glass Catalog Series, Corning, N.Y., Corning Museum of Glass, 1981, p. 165, no. 607.

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. 743.