"Cocktail Glass"

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Object Name: 
Cocktail Glass
Title: 
"Cocktail Glass"
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, NY, Corning
Accession Number: 
97.4.42
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 10.3 cm; Rim Diam: 9.5 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1953
Credit Line: 
Gift of Steuben Glass
Primary Description: 
Colorless lead glass; blown, tooled, ground, polished. Conical bowl with a tooled solid, cylindrical base; ground and polished under base. Signed "Steuben" in diamond-point script under base. Gummed paper label with typed no. "8054" near rim.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Steuben Glass, Inc., Source
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
blown glass
tooling
ground glass
polishing
Material: 
lead glass

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. 275, #8054; BIB# 21935