Tumbler

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Object Name: 
Tumbler
Place Made: 
Germany
United States
Accession Number: 
86.4.195
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 9.1 cm; Rim Diam: 7.8 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1751
Credit Line: 
Gift of Miss Elizabeth Wistar
Primary Description: 
Greyish non-lead glass; blown, engraved. Cylindrical shape, slightly wider at top with two wavy horizontal engraved lines above inscription: "Margareta/Wisterin/1751"; heart and flowers engraved on reverse; pontil mark has been roughly ground.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Wistar Estate, Elizabeth (d. 1993), Source
Color: 
gray
Technique: 
glassblowing
engraving
Material: 
glass
Inscription: 
Margareta/Wisterin/1751
inscription

Exhibitions (1)

Title Unknown (Corning Museum of Glass)
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1976 through 1976

Publications (6)

Chemical Analyses of Early Glasses (Volume 3) (2012) pp. 86, 683; BIB# 61154
American Antiques and Collectibles (2001) illustrated, p. 264; BIB# 76353
Collector's Guide to American Pressed Glass, 1825-1915 (1992) p. 5, fig. 2-1; BIB# 34337
A Catalogue of American Antiques (1990) illustrated, p. 92; BIB# 69239
Recent Important Acquisitions, 29 (1987) illustrated, p. 118, #18; BIB# AI19055
Glass Production in Eighteenth Century America: The Wistarburg Enterprise (1976) figs. 25-28, pp. 96-97;