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Primary Description:
Tumbler with Ceramic Portrait of Washington. Clear glass; wear marks; free blown, cut and engraved, with an encased sulphide; cylindrical body; above a paneled bottom a frieze of diamonds and fans, below rim a rose-vine circlet, on one side a small medallion of rose-vine sprays enclosing the monogram: "FCW"; in the base a portrait bust ("sulphide") of Washington in uniform.
Exhibitions (5)


Glassmaking: America's First Industry
Venue(s)
Strong Museum 1990-04-17 through 1990-04-29

Arts of the Federal Period
Venue(s)
Heritage Plantation of Sandwich 1989-05-07 through 1989-10-29

Flowers Which Clothe the Meadows
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1978-04-26 through 1978-10-21

The Cut and Engraved Glass of Corning, 1868-1940
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1977-04 through 1977-10
Toledo Museum of Art 1977-11 through 1978-02
Publications (11)
Y'oroppa amerika no ant'iku garasu : shiru, kau, kataru, kansh'osura (2002)
illustrated, p. 84;
BIB# 74885
Objects of Fantasy: Glass Inclusions of the Nineteenth Century (2001)
illustrated, p. 129, #72;
BIB# 68390
Un guide pour la datation de la verrerie de table des annees 1800 a 1940 (2001)
illustrated, Fig. 41, center, p. 210;
BIB# 96483
The Cut and Engraved Glass of Corning 1868-1940 (1977)
illustrated, pp. 16, 88, fig. 4, cat. #4;
BIB# 28368