Pitcher with Floral Decoration

Object Name: 
Pitcher with Floral Decoration

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Object Name: 
Pitcher with Floral Decoration
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, MA, Cambridge
Accession Number: 
2002.4.235
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 12.7 cm, L: 13 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1850
Credit Line: 
Gift of Sara S. Russell in memory of Isabel Leighton Stedman
Primary Description: 
Colorless, gold-ruby lead glass; blown, cased, engraved. Pear-shaped body blown of colorless glass with red overlay, applied colorless handle, engraved leaf spray on lower body, and narrower spray around neck, polished pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Russell, Sara Stedman, Former Collection
Stedman, Barbara Hall, Former Collection
Leighton, John H., Jr., Former Collection
Leighton, John H., Former Collection
Russell, Theodore E., Source
2002-08-14
Hall, Isabel Leighton, Former Collection
Color: 
Colorless, gold-ruby
colorless
Technique: 
blown, cased, engraved

Publications (2)

The New England Glass Company, 1818-1888 (1963) p. 64, #45; BIB# 27488
Cambridge Glass, 1818 to 1888 (1930) illustrated, pl. 64-65; pl. 31, left; BIB# 25687