Lemonade Glass

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Object Name: 
Lemonade Glass
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, possibly MA, Sandwich
Accession Number: 
50.4.334
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 14.5 cm; Rim Diam: 5.75 cm; Base Diam: 4.5 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1870-1888
Primary Description: 
Lemonade Glass. Lead glass, deep pink or cranberry threading; blown, mechanically threaded and engraved; slender cylindrical form with smooth base, applied D-like handle set low on side with small blob attachment at top and terminating in large spreading oval just above base; pink threading on lower part of glass and below engraved decoration of cattails and rushes between conventionalized lily-pads and water lilies.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin, George S. (b. 1874), Source
1950-07-31
Color: 
deep pink
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
threading
engraving
applied
Material: 
lead glass

Publications (1)

Woman's day dictionary of Sandwich glass (1963) illustrated, p. 30 (row 1, second from right); BIB# 98017