Maker
Unknown American
CultureAmerican
Titles
- Cream Jug
Datec. 1830–1860
Made inNew Jersey, United States
MediumNonlead glass
Dimensions4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Object numberB.69.458
Current Location
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens
Pine Room
On view
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Department
Bayou BendObject Type
This free-blown cream jug with applied thread decoration at the neck represents the type of glass long associated with New Jersey and described by early collectors as Wistarburg. However, it is now known that this style of glass was also made in New York, New England, and in the Midwest.
Related examples: Winterthur (Palmer 1993, p. 174, no. 136).
Book excerpt: David B. Warren, Michael K. Brown, Elizabeth Ann Coleman, and Emily Ballew Neff. American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection. Houston: Princeton Univ. Press, 1998.
ProvenanceJacob Paxson Temple (1880–1924), Tanguy, Pennsylvania; consigned to [American Art Galleries, New York, The Jacob Paxson Temple Collection: Two Hundred Years of Glasswork in America, November 17, 1923, lot 574]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, 1923; given to MFAH, 1969.
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