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Object Name: 
Mug
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States
Accession Number: 
79.4.327
Dimensions: 
H: 13.2 cm, W (incl. handle): 12.4 cm, D: 8.8 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1760-1820
Credit Line: 
Gift of The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation
Primary Description: 
Gray-green glass; blown. Cylindrical shape with widely spaced threading covering body; applied strap handle with thumb-rest; conical kick-up in base; rough pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin, George S. (b. 1874), Former Collection
Strauss Memorial Foundation, Ruth Bryan, Source
Category: 
Early American
Color: 
gray-green
Technique: 
blown

Exhibitions (1)

Glass Drinking Vessels from the Strauss Collection
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1955-06-13 through 1955-10-23

Publications (7)

Glass A to Z (2002) illustrated, p. 616; BIB# 73416
American Glass in the Jerome Strauss Collection (1980-08) p. 274, pl. II; BIB# AI9966
Glass Drinking Vessels: From the Collections of Jerome Strauss and The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation: a Special Exhibition, 1955 (1955) p. 115, #290; BIB# 27783
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Doubleday edition) (1950) pl. 72, #3; BIB# 25299
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Crown Publishers edition) (1950) pl. 72, #3; BIB# 76944
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Bonanza Books edition) (1950) pl. 72, #3; BIB# 96725
Glassmaking History in Drinking Vessels (1941-08) p. 82, top;