Palm Cup

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Object Name: 
Palm Cup
Accession Number: 
79.1.38
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 9.5 cm, Diam (max): 13.2 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
500-699
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Jerome Strauss
Primary Description: 
Transparent light blue glass with greenish streaks; many bubbles; blown, tooled. Rim outsplayed, folded outward, downward and inward; drooping tubular flange at junction of rim and body; wall splays and then curves inward toward bottom; at center of base, low kick, edges of which appear to have been smoothed by grinding. On lower part of body, fifteen narrow vertical ribs more or less evenly spaced, apparently formed by tooling.
Department: 
Provenance: 
Strauss, Jerome (1893-1978), Source
1979
Glass Drinking Vessels from the Strauss Collection
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1955-06-13 through 1955-10-23