Mug

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Object Name: 
Mug
Place Made: 
United States
Accession Number: 
79.4.321
Dimensions: 
H: 19.7 cm; D (rim): 11.3 cm, (foot): 10.6 cm; W (incl. handle): 15.4 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1876-1880
Credit Line: 
Gift of The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation
Primary Description: 
Colorless lead glass and metal; blown. Ovoid bowl with threading around rim; attached by wafer to hollow spherical knop containing four Japanese coins; attached by another wafer to flat circular foot; polished pontil mark; applied strap handle.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Lamade, Mrs. J. B., Former Collection
Strauss Memorial Foundation, Ruth Bryan, Source
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
blown

Publications (4)

The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1987 (1988) p. 5; BIB# AI96382
American Glass in the Jerome Strauss Collection (1980-08) p. 276, fig. 5; BIB# AI9966
Commemorative and Souvenir Glassware (1980-05) p. 62; BIB# AI8673
A Pair of 19th Century American Tankards with Japanese Coins (1959) illustrated, pp. 103-105, fig. 1, right; BIB# AI56170