Champagne Pitcher

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Object Name: 
Champagne Pitcher
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, MA, Sandwich
Accession Number: 
74.4.115
Dimensions: 
H: 28 cm, D(max): 14.4 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1870-1888
Primary Description: 
Colorless, lead glass; blown. Pear-shape body; trefoil lip; twisted solid rope handle applied around neck and fastened to body on either side of a pushed-in ice reservoir, also rope-rimmed; body rolled in crumbs of glass on marver while hot to get "ice glass" effect; flat base; slightly pushed in.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Eisenberg, Jeanne, Source
1974-05-20
Category: 
Early American
Art Glass
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
Material: 
lead glass

Exhibitions (1)

Masterpieces of American Glass
Venue(s)
Museum of Applied Arts 1990-07-27 through 1990-09-02
State Hermitage Museum 1990-09-15 through 1990-10-21
Museum of the State Institute of Glass 1990-11-02 through 1991-01-04

Publications (4)

Glass A to Z (2002) illustrated, p. 107; BIB# 73416
Masterpieces of American Glass (1990) illustrated, pp. 46, 94, pl. 74; BIB# 33046
Shedevry amerikanskogo stekla: iz kollektsij Muzeia Stekla v Korninge i Muzeia Iskusstva v Tolido (1990) illustrated, p. 73, #67; BIB# 34475
Glass Tableware, Bowls and Vases (1982) pl. 95; BIB# 22048