F.C.S.A. Tumbler

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Object Name: 
Tumbler
Title: 
F.C.S.A. Tumbler
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
possibly Germany, Lower Saxony, Hannover, Grunenplan
possibly United States, MD, Frederick
Accession Number: 
2006.4.175
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 9.8 cm, Diam (max): 8 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1780-1795
Credit Line: 
Gift of the L. T. Murray Family in Honor of Lowell Anne Butson
Primary Description: 
Colorless glass; blown, tooled, enameled, gilded. Colorless glass, cylindrical shape that flares slightly at gilded rim. Decorated on the interior with blue enamel just above mid-body with gilded intials and scrollwork on the outside surface of the tumbler, unpolished pontil mark on base.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Butson, John E., Source
2006-10-23
Category: 
Early American
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
hot-working
enameling
gilding
Material: 
glass
enamel
gold
Inscription: 
Murray / 2. /
Inscription
: 
Sticker On underside of tumbler. Rectangular white sticker with handwritten text in blue ink.
F.C.S.A.
Inscription
: 
Gilded On front of tumbler.

Publications (7)

Chemical Analyses of Early Glasses (Volume 3) (2012) pp. 86, 683; BIB# 61154
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 2006 (2007) illustrated, pp. 10-11, left; BIB# AI92696
Franz Gondelach: Baroque Glass Engraving in Hesse (JGS) (1996) illustrated, p. 188, #60; BIB# AI3179
John Frederick Amelung and the New Bremen Glassmanufactory (1976) illustrated, pp. 90-91, #23 fig. 42; BIB# AI6136
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Crown Publishers edition) (1950) illustrated, pl. 81; BIB# 76944
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Bonanza Books edition) (1950) illustrated, pl. 81; BIB# 96725
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Doubleday edition) (1950) illustrated, pl. 81; BIB# 25299