Pitcher or Jug

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Object Name: 
Pitcher or Jug
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Ireland
Accession Number: 
50.2.37
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 14 cm; Rim W: 9 cm, D: 12 cm; Base Diam: 7.3 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1800
Primary Description: 
Colorless lead glass; dip-molded, blown and cut. Flat barrel body, ovate spreading rim with wide deep lip; on bottom, well-worn rayed band around center with rough pontil; very broad, heavy loop handle with long crimped and curled-back end; decoration: band of fine molded flutes at bottom; cut, narrow, open-back bracelet of fine prisms, and group of oval facets on lip and sides of rim; large cut oval on top of handle.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Steuben Glass, Inc., Source
1950-10-01
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
mold-blowing
glassblowing
cutting
Material: 
lead glass

Exhibitions (1)

Title Unknown (Rich's)
Venue(s)
Rich's Inc. 1948-10 through 1948-10

Publications (2)

Irish Glass: Waterford-Cork-Belfast in the Age of Exuberance (1981) illustrated, p. 149, pl. 131; BIB# 21932
Irish Glass: The Age of Exuberance (1970) illustrated, pl. 59A; BIB# 27243