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Hunting Horn

Hunting Horn

 
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Object Name: 
Hunting Horn
Department
American
Category
Early American
Maker(s)
Stiegel, Henry William, Maker
Place Made: 
United States, PA, Manheim
Date: 
1770-1775
Color
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deep purple
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blue
Technique
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dip molds
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blow molding
Material
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glass
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 20.5 cm
Accession Number: 
50.4.31
Location: 
On Display
Description
Hunting Horn. Probably lead glass; deep purple-blue; patterned in an eighteen-rib dip mold and ribbing swirled as gather was fashioned by manipulation into form of hunting horn, narrow folded rim on horn, plain flaring rim at mouth-piece.
Provenance
McKearin, George S., Source
1933
to
1950-07-31

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Publications

American Fancy: Exuberance in the Arts, 1790-1840 (2004) illustrated, p. 189, fig. 333; BIB# 81579
Glasshouse whimsies: an enhanced reference (1989) illustrated, pp. 96-97, ill. p. 97; BIB# 33472
Glasshouse whimsies (1984) illustrated, pp. 96-97; BIB# 31190

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