Powder Horn

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Object Name: 
Powder Horn
Place Made: 
United States, NY
Accession Number: 
63.4.18
Dimensions: 
L: 9 1/2"
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1840-1860
Primary Description: 
Colorless/white lead (?) glass; blown and tooled. Horn-shaped curved cylinder, closed at the larger end and with an applied and tooled spherical knob there with a ground and polished pontil mark at end of knob. Narrow shaft has four applied triple rings of colorless glass and an applied collar. Horn itself is of colorless glass with marvered in opaque white looping.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Old Print Shop Inc., Source
1963-03-29
Category: 
Early American
Color: 
white
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
hot-working
grinding
polishing
Material: 
lead glass

Publications (1)

Story of Glass Coloring Book (1981) illustrated, p. 45, front left; BIB# 67749