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Object NameUrn

Maker New England Glass Company (1818-1878)

Made FromLead Glass

Dateabout 1837-1840

Place MadeUnited States, MA, Cambridge

Techniqueblown, mold-blown, pattern-molded

SizeH: 20.1 cm, D(rim): 12.6 cm

Accession Number73.4.18

Credit LineGift of Marion Pike

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern

Exhibitions

New England Glass Company, 1818-1888

On ViewAmerican Gallery

Interpretive Notes

Web Text

This urn contains a French Quarter Franc of 1835 and a United States Half Dime of 1837.

Physical DescriptionColorless, lead glass; blown, mold-blown, pattern-molded. Bell-shape bowl, with out-flaring rim; twenty-three lines of closely-spaced threading; two adjacent applied rings below threading; pattern-molded gadrooning on lower half of bowl; with three wafers attaching bowl to stem; (two applied three-ribbed loop handles, crimped at lower end; below wafer a spherical hollow knop with two silver coins, a Louis Philippe one-quarter franc of 1835 and a U.S. five-cent piece of 1837; attached with three wafers to circular, flat foot; polished pontil mark.
Provenance

Former Collection Thomas Leighton Jr.

Former Collection Charles Leighton

Source Marion Pike