Lemonade glass

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Object Name: 
Lemonade glass
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States
Accession Number: 
79.4.318
Dimensions: 
H: 14.1 cm, Diam: 6 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1870-1888
Credit Line: 
Gift of The Ruth Bryan Strauss Memorial Foundation
Primary Description: 
Colorless and red glasses; blown, tooled, engraved. Cylindrical shape; upper half copper wheel engraved with a design of pond lilies; lower half covered with red threading; applied colorless handle near base; polished pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Strauss Memorial Foundation, Ruth Bryan, Source
1979-03-22
Color: 
Colorless, red
colorless
Technique: 
blow, tooled, engraved
tooling

Publications (3)

Shades of Glass (2006) illustrated, p. 30, 2nd from top; BIB# 100967
On the Surface: Late Nineteenth-Century Decorative Arts (2001) p. 83; BIB# 66931
American Glass in the Jerome Strauss Collection (1980-08) pl. IV, p. 275; BIB# AI9966