Wine glass

1820-1840

Measurements

4 in x 2-1/8 in (dia)

Materials

Colorless lead glass

Credit Line

Historic Odessa Foundation

Accession Number

2023.91

Condition Notes

The wine glass has a tiny flake on the inside of the rim.

Comments

The “bucket-bowl” wine glass has strawberry-diamond engraved decoration around the outside. The bowl is on a disk stem above a round foot.  Remnants of a pontil mark remain on the outside bottom of the foot.  

Strawberry-diamond engraving is associated with Pittsburgh glass, but it is also found on glasswares from England and Ireland.  For three reasons, it is more likely to have been made in the United States than in England or Ireland, where the best glass in the world was made:  1) This wine glass lacks the cut facets around the base of the bowl.  2) The glass includes a few impurities.  And 3), the pontil mark on the bottom is relatively coarse.

This wine glass has similar engraving to Historic Odessa wine glasses, accession nos. 1983.123.1, .3, .5