Wine glass

Artistprobably Holmegaard Glasvaerks

Date1850-1870

DimensionsH: 4 7/16 in. (11.2 cm); Rim Diam: 2 5/16 in. (5.8 cm); Base Diam: 2 5/16 in. (5.8 cm)

MediumColorless non-lead glass; blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1971.136

Not on View

DescriptionBowl blown in a one-piece full-size mold bearing a pattern of short, pointed ribs that impressed a fingered pattern around the lower forty percent of the bowl. Joined by an angular medial knop to an applied and tooled stem. Applied tooled, slightly domed foot. Rough pontil mark. Upper part of bowl engraved with stone wheels with a very shallow pattern of oak leaves and acorns.

Published ReferencesLarsen, Alfred, Dansk Glas, 1825-1925, Copenhagen, Nyt Nordisk, 1963, pp. 80, 81, fig. 42, top center (without engraving); p. 83, fig. 46, lower right; p. 93, fig. 59; p. 111, fig. 87; p. 115, fig. 95.

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. 791, no. 1343.

Exhibition HistoryDanish Glass, 1814-1914: The Peter F. Heering Collection, exh. cat., Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1974, p. 21, cat. no. 65 (1867 price list).