Bar Pitcher

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Object Name: 
Bar Pitcher
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, NY, Corning
Accession Number: 
97.4.97
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 19.2 cm, D: 9.9 cm, L (max): 22.8 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1968
Credit Line: 
Gift of Steuben Glass Inc.
Primary Description: 
Colorless lead glass; blown, applied, tooled, ground, polished. Barrel-shaped body pitcher with a tooled straight neck and pouring lip; applied handle attached to rim opposite lip and curled up where it meets the body near base. Signed "Steuben D5" in diamond-point script under base. Design no. 8224.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Steuben Glass, Inc., Former Collection
1997
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
blown glass
tooling
ground glass
polishing
applied decoration
Material: 
lead glass
Inscription: 
Steuben D5
Signature
: 
Diamond point script Under base

Exhibitions (1)

Glass and Glamour: Steuben's Modern Moment, 1930-1960
Venue(s)
Museum of the City of New York 2003-10-14 through 2004-04-11

Publications (1)

Steuben Glass: An American Tradition in Crystal (1982 edition) (1982) p. 291, #8224; BIB# 21935