Loving Cup or Urn

Manufacturer New England Glass Company (American, 1818-1888)

Place of OriginEast Cambridge, Massachusetts

DateProbably 1833

DimensionsH: 26.6 cm (10 1/2 in.); W (across handles): 24.2 cm (9 1/2 in.); Rim Diam: 17.0 cm (6 3/4 in.); Base Diam: 12.8 cm (5 1/16 in.)

MediumColorless glass; Bowl blown and finished by tooling; Engraved

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dale Barker, in memory of his great-grandparents, Elizabeth and George I. Dale

Object number

1992.35

Not on View

DescriptionLower section patterned in a 25-rib dip mold, then twisted and expanded to form the gadroons around the bottom. Continuous thread wound 25 times below rim. Applied double ring of thick thread at base of neck. Tooled, infolded ring above gadroon-decorated base. Joined by a large wafer tooled with the jacks to make three bladed knops to a hollow spherical knop. Joined by another large wafer tooled to make three bladed knops. Applied, tooled solid foot. Rough pontil mark on underside of foot. Two ear-shaped handles, tooled and patterned with the jacks to make a central rib, with upturned lower ends, applied to the underside of the rim and attached to the lower part of the bowl. There are two English silver coins in the hollow knopped stem, one dated 1817 and the other 1818. The bowl is engraved on the obverse with the initials GED, for George and Elizabeth Dale, and on the reverse with Married 8 Novr. / 1833 between a roughly sketched scrolled line with four dots above and very tentative foliate branches below.

Label TextThis loving cup or urn was made at the New England Glass Company for glassblower George Dale and presented to him on the occasion of his marriage to Elizabeth Harrington on November 1, 1833. Inserted in the hollow knop of the stem are two English silver coins dated 1817 and 1818.Published ReferencesWatkins, Lura Woodside, Cambridge Glass, 1818-1888: The Story of the New England Glass Company, Boston, Marshall Jones, 1930; reprint, New York, Bramball House, 1953, pp. 73, 110, 167, ill. frontispiece.

Libbey Glass Company advertisement, Life, July 24, 1946, p. 84.

Libbey Glass Company advertisement, House Beautiful. September 1946, p. 3.

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.); p. 203, no. 201A.

Page, Jutta-Annette, The Art of Glass: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, 2006, p. 135-136, repr. (col.) fig. 55.1, p. 136.