Mug | Yale University Art Gallery

1765–85

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

Medium: Blown and engraved potash-lime glass
Dimensions: Mug with lid: 8 1/2 × 3 3/4 × 4 3/4 in. (21.59 × 9.53 × 12.07 cm)
Mug: 5 1/4 × 3 1/2 × 4 3/4 in. (13.34 × 8.89 × 12.07 cm)
Lid: 3 1/2 × 3 3/4 in. (8.89 × 9.53 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1931.1149a-b
Geography: Probably made in Bohemia
Culture: German
Period: 18th century
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Frederick J. WIlliamson, Montclair, NJ, by 1916; American Art Association, New York, 5 December 196, lot 484; by purchase to Francis P. Garvan, New York, 1916–31; by gift to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1931

Bibliography

John Stuart Gordon, American Glass: The Collections at Yale (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2018), 4, fig. 1

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

mugs

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