Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2015.

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Artist John Frederick Amelung (German-American, 1741 - 1798)

Manufacturer New Bremen Glass Manufactory (American (Frederick County, Maryland), 1785 - 1795)

CultureAmerican

Dateca. 1790

MediumMold blown glass

Dimensions2 7/8 × 2 3/4 in. (7.3 × 7 cm)
Base: 2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm)
Overall, Rim: 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds provided by Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number83.582

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 116-3, Case 18

DescriptionSalt of mold blown blue non-lead glass. Checkered diamond pattern. Double ogee bowl. Drawn stem. Applied round foot. Rough pontil. Seven checkered diamonds in a horizontal row (3 full rows & top & bottom obliterated by rim & stem).

Label TextSalt (?) in Checkered Diamond Pattern American; probably the New Bremen Glassmanufactory, Frederick, Maryland Ca. 1785-95 Blown pattern-molded glass. Museum Purchase with help from Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 83.582 Salts (?) like this and pocket flasks in the so-called "checkered diamond" pattern have been found in Maryland and may well have been bread and butter products of the New B remen Glassmanufactory.Published ReferencesCorning JOURNAL OF GLASS STUDIES, XVIII, 1976, pp. 118-119, Lamnon & Palmer; similar examples in Corning (#50.4.56) and Winterthur (74.149). Diane C. Wright (editor), _Glass: Masterworks from the Chrysler Museum of Art_ (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017), pg. 66-7.