Tumbler

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Object Name: 
Tumbler
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, MD, Frederick
Accession Number: 
55.4.281
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 20 cm; Rim Diam: 15 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1790-1795
Web Description: 
This glass bears the initials of Metha's husband, George Repold. He was a Baltimore merchant who did business with the Amelung factory.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin Antiques, Source
1955-11-12
Category: 
Early American
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
engraving
Material: 
glass
Inscription: 
G.M.R.
inscription
: 
Engraved body

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)

Chemical Analyses of Early Glasses (Volume 3) (2012) pp. 85, 682; BIB# 61154
The illustrated encyclopedia of glass (2011) illustrated, p. 11; BIB# 128671
American Antiques and Collectibles (2001) illustrated, p. 265; BIB# 76353
A Connoisseur's Guide to Antique Glass (1999) illustrated, p. 67; detail, pp. 68-69; BIB# 67965
Chemical Analyses of Early Glasses (Volume 1) (1999) pp. 189, 250; BIB# 61154
Chemical Analyses of Early Glasses (Volume 2) (1999) p. 432; BIB# 61154
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass (1992) illustrated, p. 99, #93; BIB# 35679
Collector's Guide to American Pressed Glass, 1825-1915 (1992) p. 8, fig. 2-3; BIB# 34337
A Catalogue of American Antiques (1990) illustrated, p. 93; BIB# 69239
Masterpieces of American Glass (1990) illustrated, pp. 9, 91, pl. 7; BIB# 33046
Shedevry amerikanskogo stekla: iz kollektsij Muzeia Stekla v Korninge i Muzeia Iskusstva v Tolido (1990) illustrated, pp. 42-43, #6; BIB# 34475
Glass Tableware, Bowls and Vases (1982) pl. 41; BIB# 22048
John Frederick Amelung and the New Bremen Glassmanufactory (1976) illustrated, pp. 100-101, #28 fig. 47 A-C; BIB# AI6136
Treasures in Glass (1966) illustrated, pp. 54-55, #102; BIB# 28036
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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