"Highball, Glass"

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Object Name: 
Tumbler
Title: 
"Highball, Glass"
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, NY, Corning
Accession Number: 
97.4.77
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 10.9 cm; Rim Diam: 9.8 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1935-1950
Credit Line: 
Gift of Design Dept., Steuben Glass, A Division of Corning Glass Works
Primary Description: 
Colorless lead glass; blown, tooled, ground, polished, copper wheel-engraved, sand-blasted. Straight-sided shape with a solid base; ground and polished under base. Sandblasted American Eagle on one side of the bowl, an engraved crest showing a lion passant on the opposite side. Signed "Steuben" in diamond-point script under base. Design no. 7711.

More Info

Department: 
Modern; Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Steuben Glass, Inc., Source
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
blown, tooled, ground, polished, copper wheel-engr
tooling
polishing
ground glass

Publications (1)

Steuben Glass: An American Tradition in Crystal (1982 edition) (1982) p. 273, #7711; BIB# 21935