Bowl

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Object Name: 
Bowl
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, MA, Sandwich
Accession Number: 
50.4.347
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 8.5 cm; Rim Diam: 23.5 cm; Base Diam: 11 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1870-1888
Primary Description: 
Bowl. Presumably non-lead glass, yellows and ambers in simulation of tortoise shell; free-blown; shallow broad ogee bowl with flaring gaffered rim and small straight-sided base, ground and polished pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin, George S. (b. 1874), Source
1950-07-31
Color: 
amber
yellow
Technique: 
glassblowing
Material: 
lead glass