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Clear glass and gilt-decorated tumbler of cylindrical shape, painted with gild band at rim above egg and dart-like trim with delicate leaf and floral swags below (precise and controlled design); probably for travelling liquor case.
tumblers (drinking glasses)
gilding
glass (material)
painting (coating)
Federal
Glass
Gilded
Painted
Federal
TUMBLER
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
3.5 (H), 2.875 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1410
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