Mug

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Object Name: 
Mug
Place Made: 
probably United States
possibly England
Accession Number: 
87.4.7
Dimensions: 
H (top of handle): 20.6 cm, L: 16.2 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1876-1880
Primary Description: 
Colorless lead glass; blown. Bulbous body with three cm band of closely spaced threading below rim; applied ear-shaped handle with curled up tip; bulbous stem attached with a wafer to body and to flat circular foot with ground and polished pontil mark; hollow of stem contains three flat fragments of metal which may originally have been one, fused together, the object may be a coin or token.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Arman, David, Source
1987-02-05
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
blown

Publications (1)

Recent Important Acquisitions, 30 (1988) illustrated, p. 109, #21; BIB# AI20606