Wine Glass

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Maker Unknown English

CultureEnglish

Titles

Wine Glass

Datec. 1730–1740

Made inEngland

MediumLead glass

Dimensions6 × 3 in. diameter (15.2 × 7.6 cm)

Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, museum purchase funded by the Bayou Bend Docent Organization Endowment in memory of Valery Rogers

Object numberB.2018.1

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Department

Bayou Bend

Object Type

GLASS

DescriptionThis object includes a combination of features rarely found together on an English wine glass of this date. The molded bowl, pedestal stem, and molded foot are more commonly seen together on dessert glasses.
Provenance[Asprey, London]; purchased by Maurice McLain, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, 1990; [Delomosne and Son, Ltd., Chippenham, England]; purchased by MFAH, 2017.
Published References The present example is unpublished. Closely related objects are published in: L. M., Bickerton and D. Robert Elleray. Eighteenth Century English Drinking Glasses: An Illustrated Guide. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1986. Second edition. pp.127–131. An example with related decorative features is published in: Ivor Noël Hume. Glass in Colonial Williamsburg’s Archaeological Collections. Williamsburg, Va: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1969. p. 18. Related forms are discussed in: Ivor Noël Hume. A Guide to Artifacts of Colonial America. New York: Vintage Books, 1991. p. 190–192.

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