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Tumbler

Tumbler

 
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Object Name: 
Tumbler
Department
American
Category
Early American
Place Made: 
United States, PA, Philadelphia
Date: 
1775-1799
Color
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colorless
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gray
Technique
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glassblowing
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engraving
Material
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glass
Dimensions: 
H(with cover): 22.2 cm, (without cover): 15.9 cm, D(rim): 12.5 cm, (base): 9.2 cm
Accession Number: 
55.4.48
Location: 
On Display
Description
Clear heavy glass with greyish tinge; and few large bubbles; wear marks at base; free blown and engraved; body with straight slightly spreading sides and thick base with rough pontil mark; set-in cover with hollow ball finial sitting on a short stepped stem; on the body "peasant-type" engraving; below rim a band of ellipses formed by intersecting pinnated wavy lines, underneath "JOHN REYNOLDS" enclosed in a wreath formed by a pair of leaf sprays, on each spray near their intersection a crudely formed bird.
Label Text
The people who ordered these glasses must have been prosperous. They could afford a specially inscribed piece. Unfortunately, the names are quite common. We do not know who ordered the tumblers.
Provenance
McKearin Antiques, Source

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Exhibitions

East Side Winter Antiques Show
Venue(s)
Park Avenue Armory
Publications
1

Publications

Chemical Analyses of Early Glasses (Volume 2) (1999) p. 433; BIB# 61154
Chemical Analyses of Early Glasses (Volume 1) (1999) pp. 189, 250; BIB# 61154
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Doubleday edition) (1950) pl. 78, #2, pp. 276-277; BIB# 25299
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Crown Publishers edition) (1950) pl. 78, #2, pp. 276-277; BIB# 76944
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Bonanza Books edition) (1950) pl. 78, #2, pp. 276-277; BIB# 96725

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