Tumbler

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Object Name: 
Tumbler
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, MA, Cambridge
Accession Number: 
73.4.27
Dimensions: 
H: 9 cm, D: 8.3 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1860-1870
Credit Line: 
Gift of Miss Marion Pike
Primary Description: 
Colorless, lead glass; blown, cut, engraved. Cylindrical shape; straight sides with eleven square cut panels at bottom, engraved with two vignettes of a hare running through fields and two dogs running in a landscape; eleven-sided base, polished and cut with a twenty-four-point star.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Pike, Marion, Source
Category: 
Early American
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
cutting
engraving
Material: 
lead glass

Exhibitions (2)

Engraved Glass
Venue(s)
Jones Museum of Glass and Ceramics 1984-08-26 through 1984-11-30
Libbey Glass, A Tradition of 150 Years
Venue(s)
Toledo Museum of Art 1968 through 1968
 

Publications (2)

Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968 (1968) p. 58, #60; BIB# 27334
Cambridge Glass, 1818 to 1888 (1930) illustrated, p. 122, pl. 56; BIB# 25687