Cream Pitcher

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Object Name: 
Cream Pitcher
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, NJ, Glassboro
Accession Number: 
50.4.354
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 12.5 cm; Rim W: 5.8 cm, D: 6.8 cm; Foot Diam: 5.8 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1850
Primary Description: 
Cream Pitcher. Non-lead glass, aquamarine and opaque white; free-blown; small globular body and long broad cylindrical neck spreading at rim with tiny pinched lip, decoration of opaque white loopings; applied aquamarine circular foot, rough pontil mark; small solid semi-ear-shaped aquamarine handle with crimped end, curled-back tip.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin, George S. (b. 1874), Source
1926
to
1950-07-31
Hurry, Renwick, Former Collection
1926
Color: 
aqua
white
Technique: 
glassblowing
applied
crimping
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (2)

Title Unknown (Waterloo Village)
Venue(s)
Waterloo Village 1970-04-15 through 1970-10-15
Loan exhibition of eighteenth and early nineteenth century furniture & glass; for the benefit of the National Council of Girl Scouts, inc.
Venue(s)
American Art Galleries 1929-09-25 through 1929-10-09
 

Publications (3)

Glass Tableware, Bowls and Vases (1982) illustrated, pl. 123, fourth from left; BIB# 22048
American Glass (1948) (1948) illustrated, #8, pl. 21; BIB# 25297
Loan exhibition of eighteenth and early nineteenth century furniture & glass (1929) illustrated, #107; BIB# 28050