Powder box
1866–70
Medium
Green cased over colorless lead glass; blown, cut and gilded
Dimensions
4 9/16 × 3 7/8 in. (11.6 × 9.8 cm)
Classification
Box
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Anne Cox Chambers Gift, 2014
Accession Number
2014.625.3a, b
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...