Ewer

Art Historical Context

This elegant ewer, crafted between 1825 and 1850, exemplifies early 19th-century American glassmaking at its finest. Standing at 6 3/4 inches tall, it was created using the free-blown technique, where skilled artisans gathered molten glass on a blowpipe and shaped it through careful blowing, swinging, and tool manipulation—without molds. The resulting green glass hue, likely from natural impurities in the batch, gives it a soft, jewel-like translucency that catches the light beautifully, evoking the organic forms of nature. In the context of antebellum America, such ewers were essential house...