Dessert glass

1820-1840

Measurements

4-3/4 in x 4 in (dia)

Materials

Colorless lead glass

Credit Line

Historic Odessa Foundation, gift of

Accession Number

2024.26

Inscription

"JAB" is engraved inside a rectangular panel on one side of the body near the rim.

Comments

The dessert glass is similar in shape to contemporary wine glasses--note the disk foot and disk stem--but the bowl is broader and deeper, in keeping with its function.  The bowl has a band of cross-hatching cut with a copper wheel.  The cross-hatching stops at a plain panel with engraved initials, presumably those of its first owner.  The base of the bowl has 12 broad facets cut into it.  Each corresponds to the 12-sided wafer or disk above the short stem, itself with a disk in the center.  The round foot has a polished pontil on the underside.