Miniature Pitcher

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Object Name: 
Miniature Pitcher
Place Made: 
United States, NJ, Southern
Accession Number: 
55.4.130
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 9.2 cm, Diam (max): 9.2 cm; Rim Diam: 5.4 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1800-1850
Primary Description: 
Miniature Pitcher. Transparent pale aquamarine glass with few large and minute bubbles; free blown, with applied decoration; oval body with applied crimped foot having rough pontil mark, wide neck flaring to rim tooled to form a band and flaring to pinched lip; applied solid ear-shaped handle; superimposed double band of lily-pad decoration Type I.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern; Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin Antiques, Source
1955-11-12
Category: 
Early American
Color: 
aquamarine
Technique: 
glassblowing
applied decoration
applied
crimping
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (1)

Loan exhibition of eighteenth and early nineteenth century furniture & glass; for the benefit of the National Council of Girl Scouts, inc.
Venue(s)
American Art Galleries 1929-09-25 through 1929-10-09

Publications (4)

Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Doubleday edition) (1950) pl. 41, #3, pp. 202-203; BIB# 25299
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Crown Publishers edition) (1950) pl. 41, #3, pp. 202-203; BIB# 76944
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Bonanza Books edition) (1950) pl. 41, #3, pp. 202-203; BIB# 96725
Loan exhibition of eighteenth and early nineteenth century furniture & glass (1929) illustrated, #123; BIB# 28050