Cut-down Spooner

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Object Name: 
Cut-down Spooner
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, MA, Cambridge
Accession Number: 
2010.4.147
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 9.2 cm, Diam: 9 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1860-1879
Primary Description: 
Spooner. Colorless glass; blown, applied, tooled, cut, engraved. Cylindrical spooner with cut oval band around base; applied circular foot with cut starburst on bottom. Wall of spooner decorated with engraved forest stream scene showing 5 deer, one of which is a buck.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Fillebrown, Kenneth, Source
2010-11-02
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
applied
tooling
cutting
engraving
Material: 
glass