Boot Glass

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Object Name: 
Boot Glass
Place Made: 
England
Accession Number: 
79.2.184
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 9.8 cm, W: 6.4 cm; Top Diam: 4.1 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1800-1850
Credit Line: 
Gift of The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation
Primary Description: 
Colorless lead glass; blown. Boot-shaped drinking glass with tall, ovoid leg, waisted ankle, bulbous heel with applied pad, and arching, flattened toe; rough pontil mark on the heel.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern; Modern
Provenance: 
Strauss Memorial Foundation, Ruth Bryan, Source
1979-03-22
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
blown, applied

Publications (1)

A Coronation Exhibition of Royal, Historical, Political, and Social Glasses (1937) p. 24 (pl. 23, #109); BIB# 27511