Double Glass Goblet

Object Name: 
Double Glass Goblet

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Object Name: 
Double Glass Goblet
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, PA, Pittsburgh
Accession Number: 
86.4.40
Dimensions: 
H: 14.9 cm, D: 9.1 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1874-1876
Credit Line: 
Gift in memory of Charles H. and Alice Wendt Voorhees
Primary Description: 
Opaque white and colorless non-lead glasses; pressed. Cylindrical bowl of colorless glass; lower edge of bowl, stem and foot of white glass; white is scalloped on lower portion of bowl with flutes which twist around baluster stem; circular flat foot has flutes on top surface.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Schwind Antiques, Source
1986-05-09
Category: 
Early American
Color: 
Opaque white, colorless
Technique: 
pressing

Publications (2)

The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1986 (1987) p. 6; BIB# AI96383
Pittsburgh Glass, 1797-1891 (1976) illustrated, p. 416 (fig. 468); BIB# 19272