Wine glass

Place of OriginProbably Denmark

Date1850-1860

DimensionsH: 4 1/16 in. (10.3 cm); Rim Diam: 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm); Base Diam: 2 7/16 in. (6.2 cm)

MediumColorless non-lead glass; bowl blown and finished by tooling. Joined by a knop just under the bowl to a solid, tooled stem. Applied tooled foot with tooled step near edge. Slightly rough pontil mark.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1971.118

Not on View

Published ReferencesLarsen, Alfred, Dansk Glas, 1825-1925, Copenhagen, Nyt Nordisk, 1963, pp. 76, 77, figs. 35, 36, (two wineglasses made in Denmark of very similar bell-shaped form, the first with a bladed knop just below the bowl, the second with a medial bladed knop).

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. 787, no. 1335.