Water Jug

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Object Name: 
Water Jug
Place Made: 
Accession Number: 
50.2.86
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 22.8 cm; Lip Diam: 14 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1810
Primary Description: 
Thick colorless lead glass; blown and cut. Broad squat globular body, wide neck, oval at rim with deep lip; cut open-back bracelet bands on body: wide band of diamond diapering with prisms at each end, above narrow deep flutes and below broad flat flutes; prismatic cutting on sides of neck below notched rim; ground and polished pontil; applied very large heavy loop handle curving slightly above rim, cut thumbrest on top, long cut flat end.
Department: 
Provenance: 
Steuben Glass, Inc., Source
1950-10-01
Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd, Former Collection
Category: 
Color: 
Material: 
Title Unknown (Marshall Field & Co.)
Venue(s)
Marshall Field & Co., Chicago 1946-09 through 1946-12
Irish Glass: Waterford-Cork-Belfast in the Age of Exuberance (1981) illustrated, p. 149, pl. 134; BIB# 21932
Waterford Glass House (1977-06) illustrated, p. 30; BIB# AI100930
Irish Glass: The Age of Exuberance (1970) illustrated, pl. 60B; BIB# 27243