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Wine glass

Manufacturer Boston and Sandwich Glass Works (American, 1826-1888)
Dateabout 1880- about 1887
DimensionsH: 4 in. (10.2 cm); Rim Diam: 1 3/4 in. (4.5 cm); Base Diam: 1 31/32 in. (5.0 cm)
MediumColorless non-lead glass.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Sandra E. Knudsen
Object number
1989.124
Not on View
DescriptionBowl blown and finished by tooling. Joined by a wafer to the stem. Joined by a wafer to the foot. Engraved with a Roman key border just below rim and with many small stars made of three intersecting lines on the lower part of the bowl. No pontil mark.
Published ReferencesBarlow, Raymond E. and Joan E. Kaiser, The Glass Industry in Sandwich, ed. Lloyd C. Nickerson, 3 vols., Windham, NH, authors, vol. 4, 1983, pp. 220-221, nos. 4224-4225 (pattern called Roman Key and Star).

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. 537, no. 882.

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