Rummer

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Object Name: 
Rummer
Place Made: 
England
Accession Number: 
79.2.147
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 16.3 cm; Rim Diam: 10.1 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1816
Credit Line: 
Gift of The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation
Primary Description: 
Colorless lead glass; blown, engraved, cut. Tapered, cylindrical bowl, cut flutes around base; engraved representation of Brittania on one side; an oval panel framed by floral swags and topped by a basket of fruit on other side; hollow ball stem with merese above and capstan below, containing a silver six pence of King George III dated 1816; disk foot; polished pontil mark.

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Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Strauss Memorial Foundation, Ruth Bryan, Source
1981-01
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
Blown, Engraved, Cut
engraving

Publications (2)

Some 19th Century Glasses from the Strauss Collection (1981-03) pp. 36-43; p. 39, fig. 10; BIB# AI8566
A Coronation Exhibition of Royal, Historical, Political, and Social Glasses (1937) p. 31 (pl. 31, #137); BIB# 27511