Tumbler with Portrait of Queen Maria II of Portugal

Tumbler with Portrait of Queen Maria II of Portugal

 
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Object Name: 
Tumbler with Portrait of Queen Maria II of Portugal
Department
European
Place Made: 
possibly Portugal
Date: 
1837-1840
Color
AAT
colorless
Technique
AAT
pressing
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 9.5 cm; Rim Diam: 7.6 cm
Accession Number: 
66.3.9
Location: 
Not on Display
Description
Colorless, opaque white glass; pressed. Cylindrical, with a diamond pattern around sides and a sulphide portrait head of Dona Maria II Queen of Portugal (1834-1853) on one side; waffle base.
Provenance
Kuttner, Mr. J. M., Source
1966
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2003-03-20 through 2003-09-01
West Bridge Show
Internet Glas-Auktion eglass fischer Januar 2002. Pressglas m. Pasten-Bildnis Dona Maria II. von Portugal (1834-1853) (2002) illustrated, p. 26, fig. 048 a;
Sulfides: Portraits Sealed in Glass (1990-02) pp. 44-45, ill. p. 44;
American and European Pressed Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1981) illustrated, p. 398, #1535, pl. 16; BIB# 30457

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