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American Decorative Arts
Public domain

Sweetmeat Basket

1820–49

Mold-blown and hotworked lead glass

2 7/8 × 3 in. (7.3 × 7.62 cm)
Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
1930.1504
Geography: 
Possibly made in France
Status: 
By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Culture: 
possibly French
Period: 
19th century
Classification: 
Containers - Glass
Provenance: 

Mrs. William B. (Margaret L.) Montague, Norristown, Pa., by 1929; by purchase to Francis P. Garvan, New York, 1929; by gift to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

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