jug

Object NameWater Jug

Made FromLead Glass

Dateabout 1810

Place MadeIreland

TechniqueBlown, cut

SizeOverall H: 22.8 cm; Lip Diam: 14 cm

Accession Number50.2.86

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Exhibitions

Title Unknown (Marshall Field & Co.)

On ViewCrystal City Gallery

Physical DescriptionThick colorless lead glass; blown and cut. Broad squat globular body, wide neck, oval at rim with deep lip; cut open-back bracelet bands on body: wide band of diamond diapering with prisms at each end, above narrow deep flutes and below broad flat flutes; prismatic cutting on sides of neck below notched rim; ground and polished pontil; applied very large heavy loop handle curving slightly above rim, cut thumbrest on top, long cut flat end.
Provenance

Source Steuben Glass, Inc. (American, founded 1903) - 1950-10-01

Former Collection Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd