Fingerbowl

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Object Name: 
Fingerbowl
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States
Accession Number: 
75.4.538
Dimensions: 
H: 5.7 cm, D: 10.7 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1932
Credit Line: 
Gift of Steuben Glass
Primary Description: 
Colorless lead glass; blown and cut. Incurved bucket shape; circular rim swells and tapers to base; body cut in the "Queen Anne" pattern; flat polished base cut with a many-point rayed star.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Pattern Name: 
"Queen Anne"
Provenance: 
Steuben Glass, Inc., Source
Category: 
Crystal City
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
cutting
Material: 
lead glass

Publications (1)

The American Cut Glass Industry: T. G. Hawkes and His Competitors (1996) illustrated, p. 293, #12-15, right; BIB# 36646