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Blown glass
Dimensions
H. 6 1/4 in. (15.9 cm)
Classification
Vase
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946
Accession Number
46.140.487
Art Historical Context
This exquisite blown glass vase, created around 1888 by the New England Glass Company and Mount Glass Company, stands a modest 6 1/4 inches (15.9 cm) tall. Now on view in The American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of—thanks to the generous gift of Mrs. Emilythrop Miles in 194—it captures the refined elegance of late 19th-century American decorative arts. blown glass medium was a hallmark of the era's glassmaking innovation, where molten glass was gathered on a blowpipe and skillfully shaped with breath and tools to form delicate, luminous vessels. New England Glass Company, a pioneer since...
About the Artist
New England Glass Company|Mount Washington 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...