3-piece Epergne

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Object Name: 
3-piece Epergne
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States
England
Accession Number: 
67.4.102
Dimensions: 
H: 33.4 cm, D (top): 10 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1870-1890
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Frances Craig Hawkes McAllister
Primary Description: 
Colorless lead glass; mold-blown and tooled. (a) Trumpet shape; a central trumpet open to an ovoid section below; an applied, twisted ring on either side of the bulbous ovoid section; applied tooled flaring foot with ground and polished edge. (b and c) Trumpet shaped vase with one applied ring just above where it rests in twisted ring of center section. (a) and (b) are not interchangeable; if reversed one will be higher than the other.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
McAllister Estate, Frances Craig Hawkes, Source
Category: 
Early American
Art Glass
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
mold-blowing
hot-working
Material: 
lead glass

Publications (1)

Glass Tableware, Bowls and Vases (1982) #308; BIB# 22048