Punch cup

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Object Name: 
Punch cup
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, WV, Wheeling
Accession Number: 
73.4.145
Dimensions: 
H: 6.2 cm, D: (rim): 6.4 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1886-1890
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mr. Jerome Strauss
Primary Description: 
Red, amber, opaque white glass; blown, cased. Cylindrical shape, opaque white glass plated with a transparent amber glass which shades to deep red at top rim; applied circular handle of amber glass near base on one side; polished pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Pattern Name: 
Coral
Provenance: 
Strauss, Jerome (1893-1978), Source
Steinmen, L., Former Collection
Category: 
Early American
Art Glass
Color: 
white
red
amber
Technique: 
cased glass
glassblowing
Material: 
glass

Publications (1)

American Glass in the Jerome Strauss Collection (1980-08) pl. V; BIB# AI9966