New England Glass Company
Set of 6 Goblets

Public Domain

MakerProbably New England Glass Company(East Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1818–1888)East Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1818–1888

CultureAmerican

Titles

Set of 6 Goblets

Datec. 1850–1870

Made inCambridge, Massachusetts, United States

MediumLead glass

DimensionsEach: 6 3/16 × 3 9/16 in. diameter (15.7 × 9 cm)

Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg

Object numberB.69.58.1-.6

Non exposé

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Department

Bayou Bend

Object Type

GLASS

DescriptionDuring the middle decades of the 1800s, glassware with patterns of large overlapping ovals was popular in the United States. This example, probably manufactured by the New England Glass Company, is in a pattern named “Ashburton.”
Provenance[George Abraham and Gilbert May Antiques, Granville, Massachusetts]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, 1963; given to MFAH, 1969.

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