Funnel
Funnel
Place of OriginUnited States, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh or Monongahela area; or Ohio
Date1815-1840
DimensionsRim Diam: 3 1/4 in. (8.3 cm); L: 4 5/16 in. (11.0 cm)
MediumPale greenish glass with low lead content; mold-blown, expanded, and tooled.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth
Object number
1971.102
Not on View
DescriptionBlown and patterned in a one-piece dip mold with twenty vertical ribs. Expanded and tooled to shape. After the rim was sheared and fire-polished, the piece was cracked off the pontil, leaving the end rough and unfinished.
Published ReferencesHunter, Frederick William, Stiegel Glass, Cambridge, Mass., Houghton Mifflin, 1914; reprint, with introduction by Helen McKearin, New York, Dover, 1950, no. 20, repr.
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. 152, no. 151.
Probably 1920-1930
1830-1860
Late nineteenth to early twentieth century
1815-1830
Libbey Glass Company, an operating division of Owens-Illinois Glass Company
1940-1945
Probably 6th century
Probably 6th to early 7th century
4th century CE
6th century CE
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