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Object NameArcher's Thumb Ring

Made FromGlass

Dateabout 1850-1950

Place MadeChina

Techniqueprobably cut from a tube, ground, cased, carved

SizeOverall H: 2.35 cm, Diam: 2.7 cm

Accession Number51.6.200

Curatorial Area(s)

Exhibitions

Exhibition of East Asiatic Glass

Treasures in Glass

Not On View

Physical DescriptionArcher's Thumb Ring. Translucent colorless "Camphor" or "snowflake" glass; probably cut from a tube, ground, cased with bright blue glass and carved. Tubular shape; upper rim flat with narrow blue collar; sharply cut design of isolated motifs; a large fish in ocean spray, a stork with a fish in its mouth, a cloud, and a two-story pavilion on a cloud, the surfaces of all being delicately engraved for detail; lower rim flattened with broader, thicker and bulbous blue collar; interior surface smooth.
Provenance

Source Nellie B. Hussey - 1951