About the Artwork
Wine Jug
1860
Boston & Sandwich Glass Company
1826 - 1888
American
Unknown
Blown lead glass and pewter
Overall: 21 × 6 1/2 × 9 1/4 inches (53.3 × 16.5 × 23.5 cm)
Glass
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs Williams Fund; gifts from Mrs. E.B. Gibbs and Mrs. C. L. Williams by exchange
1999.64
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Provenance
Hirschl and Adler Galleries, Inc. (New York, New York, USA)
1999-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Lee, Ruth Webb. Early American Pressed Glass. 1946 (ill.).
McKearin, George S. and Helen. American Glass. 1948, p. 397, no. 6 (pl. 206).
Lee, Ruth Webb. Ruth Webb Lee’s Handbook of Early American Pressed Glass Patterns. 1984.
“American Decorative Arts Acquisitions 1985-2005.” Bulletin of the DIA 81, 1-2 (2007): p. 65.
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Boston & Sandwich Glass Company, Wine Jug, 1860, blown lead glass and pewter. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs Williams Fund; gifts from Mrs. E.B. Gibbs and Mrs. C. L. Williams by exchange, 1999.64.
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