Tumbler Manufacturer: New Bremen Glass Manufactory (American, 1784–1795)
Proprietor: John Frederick Amelung, American, born Germany, 1741–1798

1789

American Decorative Arts

On view, 1st floor, American Decorative Arts before 1900
Medium

Blown and engraved potash-lime glass

Dimensions

5 5/8 × 4 5/8 in. (14.29 × 11.75 cm)
base (Diam.): 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1935.258

Geography

Made in Frederick County, Maryland

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Containers

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Supposedly presented to Thomas Walley (d. 1806); by descent to Mrs. E. A. Peirce, Waltham, Mass; by purchase to Francis P. Garvan, New York; by gift to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography
  • American Art: Selections from the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2023), 92–93, no. 35, ill
  • John Stuart Gordon, American Glass: The Collections at Yale (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2018), 1, 12, 42–44, no. 14, fig. 14A
  • Joan E. Kaiser, "The Boston Glass Manufactory," The Acorn: Journal of the Sandwich Glass Museum (Spring 2012), no. 3
  • Helen A. Cooper et al., Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2008), 46, no. 13, ill
  • Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 120, ill
  • Dwight P. Lanmon and Arlene M. Palmer, John Frederick Amelung: Early American Glassmaker (London and Toronto: Associated University Press, 1990), 54–55, no. 6
  • Florence Mellows Montgomery, "Ceramics, Glass, and Textiles at Yale," Antiques 117, no. 6 (June 1980), 1330, fig. 4
  • Dwight P. Lanmon and Arlene M. Palmer, "John Frederick Amelung and the New Bremen Glassmanufactory," Journal of Glass Studies XVIII (1976), 58–59, no. 6, fig. 25a–c
  • Kenneth M. Wilson, "Serendipity and an Amelung Tumbler," Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin 29, no. 2 (1964), 39–40, fig. 10
  • Florence Mellows Montgomery, "An Amelung Sugar Bowl," Journal of Glass Studies I (1959), 89
  • Amelung Glass: An Exhibition of Wares from New Bremen, MAryland, exh. cat. (Baltimore, MD: Maryland Historical Society, 1952), 4-5, no. 4, fig. 4
  • George S. McKearin and Helen McKearin, Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1949), 39, ill
  • Patricia Bernard, "Boston Life for Over Two Centuries Shown," American Collector (December 1943), 7, ill
  • George S. McKearin and Helen McKearin, American Glass (New York, NY: Crown Publishers, 1941), 106, pl. 39, fig. 1 and 3
  • John Stuart Gordon, "Time in a Bottle," Antiques 185, no. 5 (September/October 2018), 91, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

tumblers (drinking glasses)

Inscriptions

Engraved: "Our best wishes for every/Glassmanufactory in the United States/ God Bless the City of Boston." engraved on reverse: "made at the Glassmanufactory/New Bremen in Maryland the 23 Jan. 1789/ by John Fr. Amelung and Comp."

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