Description:
These monumental blown glass vases held bouquets of flowers on a dining table or mantelpiece. A pair of free blown emerald glass vases; vases are shaped in a flaring trumpet design with plain rim and very heavy circular domed foot, underside of foot concave, pontil mark on the underside of the base. According to Nadeau family tradition, these vases were given to Mary Shumway by Mary Gregory. Mary Shumway (1833-1903) was the daughter of Lewis Shumway (1792-1875) and Harriet (Torrey) Shumway (1819-1882), Oxford, MA, and a sister of Charles Lewis Shumway (1831-1906) who married Achsah Ward. Mary Gregory was a decorator/glass painter employed by the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company.

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