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Window Frame

Collection Type

  • Architecture

Date

1680-1780

GUSN

GUSN-3026

Description

Oak window frame with 6 aperatures, 5 of which contain green "bulls-eye" blown-glass panels with very thick pontil marks (or pontys), mortised, unfinished wood (3 cracked panes).

Details

Descriptive Terms

window frames
glassblowing
glass (material)
mortise-and-tenon joints
joining
oak (wood)
Oak
Glass
Blown
Mortise & Tenon
FRAME, WINDOW

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

20.75 x 16.25 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.1517

Places

Maine (United States)

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