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Place of OriginProbably New England

Date1825-1835

DimensionsRim Diam: 5 13/16 in. (14.8 cm); Base Diam: 1 31/32 in. (5.0 cm); H: 25/32 in. (2.1 cm)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1971.35

Not on View

DescriptionBlown in a mold (McKearin G.III-21) probably for a tumbler of three vertical sections and a base plate (McKearin Rayed Type III). Expanded by centrifugal force and tooled to shape. Rim sheared and folded outward. Rough pontil mark.

Published ReferencesReferences to glass classifications established in McKearin, 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.III-21, p. 255, pl. 93; p. 261, pl. 100, no. 27.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1950; rev. ed., 1966, p. 168, pl. 24, no. 6.

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. 239, no. 297.