Creamer

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Object Name: 
Creamer
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, MA, Sandwich
Accession Number: 
55.4.228
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 11.5 cm, Diam: 7.8 cm; Body Diam (lip-handle): 11.5 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1825-1835
Primary Description: 
Creamer. Transparent cobalt-blue glass; blown-three-mold; straight sided body slightly tapering to concave base with rough pontil mark, sloping shoulder, short wide neck flaring to wide rim with pinched lip; applied solid loop-handle with central rib and crimped end; patterned in half-pint decanter mold in G V-8 pattern.

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Department: 
Early Modern; Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin Antiques, Source
1955-11-12
Color: 
cobalt blue
Technique: 
blown three-mold glass
applied
tooling
crimping
Material: 
glass

Publications (7)

Mold-Blown Glass: Roman and American (2015) illustrated, p. 9 (fig. 4); BIB# AI100138
Un guide pour la datation de la verrerie de table des annees 1800 a 1940 (2001) illustrated, Fig. 11, p. 185, left; BIB# 96483
Studies in Material Culture Research (2000) illustrated, p. 157, fig. 11; BIB# 71763
Woman's day dictionary of Sandwich glass (1963) illustrated, p. 21 (top right); BIB# 98017
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Doubleday edition) (1950) pl. 43, #3, pp. 206-207; BIB# 25299
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Crown Publishers edition) (1950) pl. 43, #3, pp. 206-207; BIB# 76944
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Bonanza Books edition) (1950) pl. 43, #3, pp. 206-207; BIB# 96725