Tumbler

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Object Name: 
Tumbler
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, MD, Frederick
Accession Number: 
79.4.333
Dimensions: 
H: 16.2 cm; D (rim): 11.7 cm, (base): 9.7 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1788
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Jerome Strauss
Web Description: 
The inscription "Liberty" may indicate that the glass was made in 1788, after the ratification of the Constitution.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Strauss, Jerome (1893-1978), Source
Category: 
Early American
Color: 
Greyish
Technique: 
free-blown, engraved
Inscription: 
Liberty
inscription
: 
on side

Description

Primary Description: 
Greyish non-lead glass; free-blown and engraved. Cylindrical shape with heavy flat base; engraved on side with "Liberty" in script, surrounded by a wreath interrupted by four flowers; rough pontil mark.

Exhibitions (1)

Glass Drinking Vessels from the Strauss Collection
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1955-06-13 through 1955-10-23

Publications (4)

American Glass in the Jerome Strauss Collection (1980-08) pl. 1; BIB# AI9966
Important Acquisitions from the Strauss Collection (1980) illustrated, p. 110, #38; BIB# AI9181
John Frederick Amelung and the New Bremen Glassmanufactory (1976) illustrated, pp. 98-99, #27, fig. 46 A-B; BIB# AI6136
Glass Drinking Vessels: From the Collections of Jerome Strauss and The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation: a Special Exhibition, 1955 (1955) illustrated, pp. 115-116, #291; BIB# 27783