Footed Mug

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

Place of Originprobably Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Date1835-1840, probably engraved 1842

Dimensions5 11/16 × 3 5/8 × 3 1/8 in. (14.5 × 9.2 × 8 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Dr. Estelle T. Milliser

Object number

1970.53

Not on View

DescriptionColorless. Body blown and finished by tooling. Tooling around the rim. Superimposed gather of gadrooning around the base patterned in a 16-rib mold, then twisted to the right. Applied handle with medial rib and crimped lower end. Applied sloping circular foot. Polished pontil mark. Body above gadrooning engraved with initials and date, enclosed below and on sides with leaf sprays with a smaller floret and leaf spray above and a pheasant or phoenix-like bird on either side.

Label TextNew England Glass Company, East Cambridge Massachusetts FOOTED MUG Colorless glass, blown and engraved, about 1835-40 (probably engraved 1842) Gift of Dr. Estelle T. Milliser, 1970.53Published ReferencesRuth Davidson, "Museum Accessions," Antiques, vol. 99, February 1971, repr. p. 220, left;

Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, repr. p. 220, fig. 3, left;

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. 204, no. 203.