Tumbler or Flip Glass

Object Name: 
Tumbler or Flip Glass

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Object Name: 
Tumbler or Flip Glass
Place Made: 
possibly Germany
Accession Number: 
55.4.67
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 9.5 cm; Rim Diam: 7.6 cm; Base Diam: 5.5 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
probably 1772-1774
Primary Description: 
Tumbler or Flip Glass. Clear glass; free blown and enameled; body with straight spreading sides and rough pontil mark at base; on the obverse a bird in blue and white perched on a heart-shaped brick red and green plant flanked by two multicolored flower and leaf sprays, on the reverse in white: "We two will be true", below rim a white wavy line, a brick red and a yellow line.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin Antiques, Source
1955-11-12
Color: 
colorless
blue
white
brick red
green
yellow
Technique: 
glassblowing
enameling
Material: 
glass
enamel

Exhibitions (1)

East Side Winter Antiques Show
Venue(s)
Park Avenue Armory

Publications (2)

Glass Tableware, Bowls and Vases (1982) pl. 40; BIB# 22048
18th Century Enameled Beakers with English Inscriptions (1959) illustrated, p. 98, fig. 7, fourth from left; p. 99, fig. 10; BIB# AI56168