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Object Name: 
Mug
Department
American
Category
Early American
Maker(s)
Wistarburgh Glassworks, Maker
Place Made: 
United States
Date: 
1760-1820
Color
gray-green
Technique
blown
Dimensions: 
H: 13.2 cm, W (incl. handle): 12.4 cm, D: 8.8 cm
Accession Number: 
79.4.327
Credit Line: 
Gift of The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation
Location: 
On Display
Description
Gray-green glass; blown. Cylindrical shape with widely spaced threading covering body; applied strap handle with thumb-rest; conical kick-up in base; rough pontil mark.
Provenance
McKearin, George S., Former Collection
Strauss Memorial Foundation, Ruth Bryan, Source

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Exhibitions

Glass Drinking Vessels from the Strauss Collection
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1955-06-13 through 1955-10-23
Publications
1

Publications

Glass A to Z (2002) illustrated, p. 616; BIB# 73416
American Glass in the Jerome Strauss Collection (1980-08) p. 274, pl. II;
Glass Drinking Vessels: From the Collections of Jerome Strauss and The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation: a Special Exhibition, 1955 (1955) p. 115, #290; BIB# 27783
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Bonanza Books edition) (1950) pl. 72, #3; BIB# 96725
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Crown Publishers edition) (1950) pl. 72, #3; BIB# 76944
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Doubleday edition) (1950) pl. 72, #3; BIB# 25299
Glassmaking History in Drinking Vessels (1941-08) p. 82, top;

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