Goblet

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Object Name: 
Goblet
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, MD, Frederick
Accession Number: 
50.4.50
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 17 cm; Rim Diam: 9.7 cm; Foot Diam: 8.75 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1785-1795
Primary Description: 
Goblet. Non-lead glass, colorless of grayish cast; free-blown; deep semi-oviform bowl, applied short stem in form of large inverted hollow baluster, applied domed foot, rough pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin, George S. (b. 1874), Source
1941
to
1950-07-31
Category: 
Early American
Color: 
gray
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
applied
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (3)

Independence Pursued: 17th and 18th c. American Glass: Amelung
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1976-05 through 1976-11
East Side Winter Antiques Show
Venue(s)
Park Avenue Armory
 
The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1954-06-21 through 1954-09-15

Publications (2)

John Frederick Amelung and the New Bremen Glassmanufactory (1976) illustrated, pp. 86-87, fig. 39; BIB# AI6136
American Glass (1948) (1948) illustrated, #6, pl. 40; BIB# 25297