Mug

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Object Name: 
Mug
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, NJ, Brooklyn
Accession Number: 
55.4.279
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 10.9 cm; Rim Diam: 11.9 cm; Body Diam (at handle): 14.7 cm; Foot Diam: 7 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1850
Primary Description: 
Mug. Transparent pale aquamarine bubbly glass; free blown, with incorporated "latticinio" decoration; sloping pinched foot with rough pontil mark, cylindrical body tapering at bottom, flaring rim; applied heavy ear-shaped handle; opaque white loopings on body.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin Antiques, Source
1955-11-12
Color: 
aqua
white
Technique: 
glassblowing
applied
tooling
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. 73, #1, pp. 266-267; BIB# 25299
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Crown Publishers edition) (1950) pl. 73, #1, pp. 266-267; BIB# 76944
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Bonanza Books edition) (1950) pl. 73, #1, pp. 266-267; BIB# 96725
Loan exhibition of eighteenth and early nineteenth century furniture & glass (1929) illustrated, #106; BIB# 28050