cordial-glass

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Object Type: cordial-glass
Museum number: 1988,0608.4
Title: Series: Embassy
Description: Cordial glass from Embassy glass service; clear glass, with vertically ribbed flat-section stem, the bowl and foot free-blown, the stem pressed and polished.
Producer name: Designed by: Walter Dorwin Teague; Designed by: Edwin W Fuerst; Factory of: Libbey Glass Company
Production date: 1939 (designed); 1940-1942 (made between)
Production place: Factory in: Toledo (town - Ohio)
Materials: glass
Technique: blown; pressed; polished
Dimensions: Diameter: 7 centimetres (base); Height: 17.20 centimetres
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Curator's comments: In set with 1988,0608.1-3 For a full discussion of the 'Embassy' pattern service by Libbey Glass see Decorative Arts 1850-1950 Cat no. 281a (1988.0608.1)
Bibliographic references: Rudoe 1991a / Decorative Arts 1850-1950: A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection. (281d); Rudoe 1994 / Decorative Arts 1850-1950. A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection (281d); Carey 1991 / Collecting the 20th Century (p.53)
Location: On display (G48/dc6)
Associated places: Used in: State Dining Room
Associated events: Designed for: New York World's Fair 1939
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Historical Design Collection Inc.
Acquisition date: 1988
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1988,0608.4
Conservation: Treatment: 11 Mar 2011

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