Beaker

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Object Name: 
Beaker
Place Made: 
Accession Number: 
69.3.2
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 13.4 cm; Rim Diam (max): 11.8 cm; Base Diam (max): 10.3 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1917
Primary Description: 
Beaker. Clear, engraved and initialed "MR", three females with fruit cornucopia, spring inst and glass, and serpent and birds.
Department: 
Design: 
Gluck-Gesundheit-Freude
Provenance: 
Noland, Harold W., Source
1968-07-24
Noland, Mrs. Harold W., Source
1968-07-24
Color: 
Technique: 
Material: 
Inscription: 
[Lobmeyr insignia]
incised mark
engraved cener of base
MR
incised mark
engraved below left foot of maiden holding snake
Arts and Crafts in Detroit: The Movement, The Society, The School
Venue(s)
Detroit Institute of Arts 1976-11 through 1977-01
The illustrated encyclopedia of glass (2011) illustrated, p. 83; BIB# 128671
The Encyclopedia of Glass (2001) illustrated, p. 77; BIB# 69319
Recent Important Acquisitions, 12 (1970) illustrated, p. 181, #63; BIB# AI97752
100 Jahre österreichische Glaskunst (1925) illustrated, pl. 26 (left); BIB# 28033