Broad Flute

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Object Name: 
Pitcher Cut with 8 Panel Flutes
Title: 
Broad Flute
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, possibly WV, Wheeling
United States, possibly PA, Pittsburgh
Accession Number: 
2000.4.16
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 17.8 cm, W: 12.1 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1830-1840
Primary Description: 
Colorless lead glass; blown, cut; barrel-shaped body with tooled pouring lip and heavy applied hollow handle opposite lip. Handle curled up at lower end. Cut horizontal lines under lip and at sides of neck; eight cut broad panels on top part of body extending down to polished base with polished pontil mark in center.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Jessen, Lawrence, Source
2000-09-18
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
Blown, Cut
Inscription: 
J93.50
inscription
: 
bottom base numbered in black

Publications (1)

Recent Important Acquisitions, 40 (1998) illustrated, p. 149, #22; BIB# AI40492