Tumbler
Tumbler
Place of OriginUnited States, probably Philadelphia, Pennsylvania or Baltimore, Maryland
Date1830-1840
Dimensions3 5/8 × 3 1/16 × 2 9/16 in. (9.2 × 7.7 × 6.5 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Paul Hollister, Jr.
Object number
1970.431
Not on View
DescriptionColorless glass. Blown in a mold (McKearin G.V-4) of four vertical sections and a base plate (McKearin Rayed Type VI.4). Rim sheared and tooled to shape. Rough, solid pontil mark with small black iron oxide deposit in center. Capacity: one-half pint.
Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S., and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948; McKearin, Helen and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978; etc., G.V-4, p. 258, pl. 97;
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. 237, no. 291.
about 1830
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