Pair of "Agata" Vases
New England Glass Company
c. 1887
Medium
Blown glass
Dimensions
2002.1.1: 38.5 × 13.6 × 13.5 cm (15 3/16 × 5 3/8 × 5 3/8 in.); 2002.19.2: 38.7 × 14 × 13.8 cm (15 1/4 × 5 9/16 × 5 7/16 in.)
Classification
glass
Department
Arts of the Americas
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
158979
About the Artist
New England Glass Company · 1818–1888
**The New England Glass Company: Pioneers of American Flint Glass** The New England Glass Company was established on February 16, 1818, in East Cambridge, Massachusetts, by a quartet of prominent local businessmen: Amos Binney, Edmund Munroe, Daniel Hastings, and Deming Jarves. Jarves, drawing on his dry goods background and talent for recruiting Europe's finest cutters, served as operational man...