Tumbler or Flip Glass

Object Name: 
Tumbler or Flip Glass

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Object Name: 
Tumbler or Flip Glass
Place Made: 
probably Bohemia
Accession Number: 
50.4.9
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 15 cm; Overall Diam (at top): 12.25 cm; Base Diam (at ribs): 7.75 cm; Base Diam (between ribs): 6.75 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1750-1800
Primary Description: 
Tumbler or Flip Glass. Non-lead glass, colorless; pattern-molded, free-blown and engraved; straight spreading sides; wide, crudely engraved circlet of three conventionalized tulips alternating with e-twists, and above twelve long sunken panels; plain base, rough pontil mark.

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Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin, George S. (b. 1874), Source
1923
to
1950-07-31
Myers, Louis Guerineau, Former Collection
1923
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
mold-blowing
engraving
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (1)

Fakes and Forgeries
Venue(s)
Minneapolis Institute of Arts 1973-05-11 through 1973-09-29

Publications (6)

Fakes and Forgeries (1973) illustrated, #235; BIB# 18886
Treasures in Glass (1966) illustrated, p. 55, #100; BIB# 28036
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Doubleday edition) (1950) p. 17 ff.; BIB# 25299
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Bonanza Books edition) (1950) illustrated, p. 17 ff.; BIB# 96725
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Crown Publishers edition) (1950) p. 17 ff.; BIB# 76944
American Glass (1948) (1948) illustrated, #5, pl. 29; p. 28; p. 48 ff.; BIB# 25297