Four Blown, Molded Engraved Colorless Flip Glasses

Four Pattern-Molded, Blown-Molded and Engraved Colorless Flip Glasses, Late Eighteenth-Early Nineteenth Century. Comprising a pattern-molded glass with thirty basal flutes and a star base; a blown-molded GII-18 glass, probably the Boston & Sandwich Glass Co., 1825-35, of tapered form, Diamond-type XII base with rough pontil; and a near pair of Continental free-blown glasses, each engraved with a matching oval trellis diaper and flower band, beneath a zigzag border at the rim. First glass: H: 7.125 in., Diam: 5.375 in. Second glass: H: 5.75 in., Diam: 4.375 in. Literature: Second glass, George S. and Helen McKearin, "American Glass," p. 251, pl. 88; p. 261, pl. 100; and p. 294.

7.125 x 5.375 x 5.375 in
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