loving cup
Object NameLoving Cup with Cover
Makerprobably
Phoenix Glass Company
Made FromLead Glass, silver
Date1820-1840
Place Madepossibly United States, MA, Cambridge
TechniqueFree-blown, tooled decoration, applied
SizeOverall H: 29 cm; Body H: 22 cm; Rim Diam: 13.5 cm; Foot Diam: 11.5 cm
Accession Number50.4.273
Curatorial Area(s)
On ViewThe Jerome and Lucille Strauss Study Gallery
Physical DescriptionLoving Cup with Cover. Lead glass, colorless, of bluish tinge; free-blown from heavy gathers, tooled decoration; an urn shape --- bowl broad and rounded at bottom tooled in bands of horizontal ribs, sides slanting slightly inward to applied flat band with medial rib, then spreading to plain rim; applied standard with composite stem: large hollow ball knop containing George III, 1811 inscribed for one shilling six pence, broad flat button knop, narrow circular stem; applied broad flat circular foot with rough pontil mark; applied opposing semi-ear-shaped handles with medial rib, large tongue attachment at top in space between collar and rim and at bottom just above ribbing on body. Heavy set-in horizontally ribbed (tooled) low-dome cover with large knop with hollow hemispherical button, silver 1821 LIBERTY dime in hollow section; one side: with Liberty head inscribed LIBERTY, 1821 below, six stars on right, seven on left; opposite side... AMERICA... DCCoin in knop inscribed GEORGIUS III DEI GRATIA REX, male portrait, ...SP... beneath shoulder
Provenance
Source
George S. McKearin
(b. 1874) - 1950-1950-07-31
Said to have been found in Connecticut and purchased in 1950.
Said to have been found in Connecticut and purchased in 1950.
