tumbler

Object NameDecanter and 2 Tumblers

Made FromLead Glass

Dateabout 1815-1835

TechniqueBlown, cut

SizeSee Individual Records

Accession Number88.4.5

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Place Made

United States, PA, Philadelphia; United States, NY, New York City

Physical DescriptionColorless lead glass; blown and cut. (Aa) Decanter with barrel-shaped body with cut and polished neck rim, three applied rings on neck, each cut in a diamond pattern, panel cutting on neck between rings and on shoulder below rings, cut design on body of strawberry diamonds interrupted by two inverted tear-drop shapes and a circle on obverse and reverse, cut panels below to base, ground and polished pontil mark which covers nearly the entire base; (Ab) stopper with hollow spherical stopper cut in a rayed pattern on top and a diamond pattern on sides, "4"scratched on tip; (B & C) cylindrical tumblers with cut design on sides of linked "S"-scrolls filled with straw-berry diamonds; fine line cutting above and between scrolls and fine diamonds below and between them, panel cutting to rayed base.
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