Pitcher on Standard

Object Name: 
Pitcher on Standard

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Object Name: 
Pitcher on Standard
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, CT, New London
Accession Number: 
55.4.129
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 18.7 cm; Rim Diam: 11.9 cm; Body Diam (lip- handle): 17.1 cm; Foot Diam: 8.7 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1856-1870
Primary Description: 
Pitcher on Standard. Transparent pale bluish-aquamarine glass with few small and large bubbles; wear marks; free blown, with applied decoration; solid slightly sloping foot with rough pontil mark, solid flat knop-stem, oval body with wide neck flaring to tooled rim and pinched lip; applied solid ear-shaped handle; on body superimposed lily-pad decoration Type I (McKearin, American Glass, 1948, p. 27).

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin Antiques, Source
1955-11-12
Minnigerode, Meade, Former Collection
Color: 
aquamarine
blue
Technique: 
glassblowing
applied decoration
applied
Material: 
glass

Publications (5)

Un guide pour la datation de la verrerie de table des annees 1800 a 1940 (2001) illustrated, Fig. 8, p. 182, 2nd from right; BIB# 96483
Studies in Material Culture Research (2000) illustrated, p.154, fig. 8; BIB# 71763
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Doubleday edition) (1950) pl. 45, #1, pp. 210-211; BIB# 25299
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Crown Publishers edition) (1950) pl. 45, #1, pp. 210-211; BIB# 76944
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Bonanza Books edition) (1950) pl. 45, #1, pp. 210-211; BIB# 96725