Mug

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Object Name: 
Mug
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, probably NY, Redford
Accession Number: 
55.4.148
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 10.4 cm; Rim Diam: 8.7 cm; Base Diam: 6.8 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1831-1850
Primary Description: 
Mug. Transparent pale aquamarine glass; wear marks; free blown, with applied decoration; body slightly tapering to concave base with pontil mark, rim tooled to give effect of a band; applied solid ear-shaped handle; superimposed lily-pad decoration Type II (McKearin, American Glass, 1948, p. 27).

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin Antiques, Source
1955-11-12
Color: 
aquamarine
Technique: 
glassblowing
applied decoration
applied
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