Description:
Blown, colorless glass tumbler with tapered sides, ground pontil mark, and wheel-engraved decoration. Much of this style of glass had been attributed to Henry William Stiegel's glassworks; however, America primarily relied on imported glass in the 17th and 18th centuries, and after the Revolution, German and Bohemian glass factories quickly found a large market here. Glassmakers in Bohemia and the German states used a lightweight, non-lead glass for their products, which was cheaper than similar English and Irish wares, despite higher transportation costs. Many were shipped through Hamburg, and thus were described as German. Tumblers and beakers begin to appear in Connecticut Valley estate inventories after the Revolution (usually two or more listed), many decorated with crudely engraved floral designs. These items were imported from New York and Boston by Connecticut Valley merchants beginning about 1770. This tumber is decorated with a V-shaped basket on one side, which is defined by vertical lines and two sets of horizontal bands, with two scrolled handles, and filled with flowers and foliate sprays; the basket is flanked by squiggly lines and stands on a straight line over a horizontal squiggly line. The opposite side has a stylized floral spray.
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