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Tumbler

Place of OriginProbably Europe

Date1820-1840

DimensionsH: 3 15/32 in. (8.8 cm); Rim Diam: 2 29/32 in. (7.4 cm); Base Diam: 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm

MediumColorless non-lead glass; mold-blown, expanded, tooled, cut, and base ground and polished.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1971.141

Not on View

DescriptionBlown in a cylindrical mold to form the base and establish the initial shape, then expanded and finished by tooling. The entire base was ground and polished. Cut rather crudely with strawberry-diamond, fan, vesica, and blaze motifs.

Published ReferencesPittsburgh, Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, Early Glass of the Pittsburgh District, 1797-1900, exh. cat., 1949, p. 14, second from left (by Lowell Innes).

Innes, Lowell, Pittsburgh Glass, 1791-1891: A History and Guide for Collectors, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1976, p. 144, fig. 104, no. 2 (for pattern of engraving).

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. 789, no. 1340.