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Wine glass

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

ca. 1870

GUSN

GUSN-7910

Description

Cranberry overlay on colorless body with circular waisted bowl with etching at mouth and loop motif at waist cut from red to clear. Colorless facetted stem terminating in applied octagonal foot.

Details

Descriptive Terms

wine glasses
glassblowing
etching (corroding)
etching (printing process)
glass (material)
faceting
Glass
Blown
Etched
Faceted
GLASS, WINE

Associated Building

Original to Hamilton House (South Berwick, Me.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

4.75 x 2.375 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Bequest of Elizabeth R. Vaughan

Accession Number

1949.643.6

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