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Description
Primary Description:
Tumbler. Clear glass with dark grey tinge and few minute bubbles; wear marks at base; free blown and engraved; straight sided body tapering downwards, base with rough pontil mark; on body a large medallion formed by leaf scrolls and floral, barley and wheat sprays, enclosing the initials in script: "G.M.R." (for George and Metha Repold), on reverse a vignette depicting a Maryland farmhouse facing a tall tree flanked by shrubbery, and in foreground three domestic fowls below, two in flight.
Exhibitions (3)

Masterpieces of American Glass
Venue(s)
Museum of Applied Arts 1990-07-27 through 1990-09-02
State Hermitage Museum 1990-09-15 through 1990-10-21
Museum of the State Institute of Glass 1990-11-02 through 1991-01-04

Independence Pursued: 17th and 18th c. American Glass: Amelung
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1976-05 through 1976-11

East Side Winter Antiques Show
Venue(s)
Park Avenue Armory
Publications (17)
Shedevry amerikanskogo stekla: iz kollektsij Muzeia Stekla v Korninge i Muzeia Iskusstva v Tolido (1990)
illustrated, pp. 42-43, #6;
BIB# 34475
John Frederick Amelung and the New Bremen Glassmanufactory (1976)
illustrated, pp. 100-101, #28 fig. 47 A-C;
BIB# AI6136
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Doubleday edition) (1950)
pl. 77, pp. 274-275;
BIB# 25299
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Crown Publishers edition) (1950)
pl. 77, pp. 274-275;
BIB# 76944
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Bonanza Books edition) (1950)
pl. 77, pp. 274-275;
BIB# 96725
Multimedia (1)

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