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Object Name: 
Bank
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, MA, Sandwich
Accession Number: 
50.4.281
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 17 cm; Body Diam (max): 7 cm; Foot Diam: 7.5 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1825-1850
Primary Description: 
Bank. Lead glass, colorless; free-blown with applied and tooled decoration; globular body with opaque white spiral tape, depressed top with coin slot at center, applied short blade-knopped stem and flat circular foot with slightly rough pontil mark; two applied hoop handles crossing at center top; twelve vertical applied pincered trailings of quilled bands on body, and, on handles, tapering to applied ornamental finial.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern; Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin, George S. (b. 1874), Source
1925
to
1950-07-31
Color: 
colorless
opaque white glass
Technique: 
glassblowing
tooling
applied decoration
Material: 
lead glass

Publications (2)

Whimsies: Playtime at the Ol'-Time Glass Factory (1986-03) illustrated, pp. 3-10, ill. p. 4;
American Glass (1948) (1948) illustrated, #4, pl. 58A; BIB# 25297