Goblet

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Object Name: 
Goblet
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, probably MD
Accession Number: 
55.4.41
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 25.7 cm; Rim Diam: 11.5 cm; Foot Diam: 13.6 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1775-1799
Primary Description: 
Goblet. Clear heavy glass with greyish tinge and few bubbles and impurities; wear marks at base; free blown and tooled; wide spreading foot with rough pontil mark, inverted baluster stem with large tear and flanked by solid flattened knops at bottom and top, bell bowl.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin Antiques, Source
1955-11-12
Category: 
Early American
Color: 
colorless
Greyish
Technique: 
glassblowing
tooling
Material: 
glass

Publications (3)

Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Bonanza Books edition) (1950) pl. 65, pp. 250-251; BIB# 96725
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Doubleday edition) (1950) pl. 65, pp. 250-251; BIB# 25299
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Crown Publishers edition) (1950) pl. 65, pp. 250-251; BIB# 76944