Cocktail Glass, One of Eight
Object Label
These ceramics are decorated with American landscape scenes and were made in England for the American market. Before the 1840s, only the elite could afford dinnerware, then made of expensive porcelain. One of the early fruits of the Industrial Revolution was the production of inexpensive machine-molded and mechanically decorated earthenware for the middle class. These objects were decorated by the transfer technique, in which the scene is engraved on a metal plate, inked, printed on paper, and then pressed, or transferred, onto the ceramic body.
Caption
Norman Bel Geddes American, 1893–1958. Cocktail Glass, One of Eight, 1937. Chrome-plated metal, 4 5/16 x 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. (11 x 6.4 x 6.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Paul F. Walter, 83.108.7. Creative Commons-BY
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Title
Cocktail Glass, One of Eight
Date
1937
Geography
Place manufactured: Rome, New York, United States
Medium
Chrome-plated metal
Classification
Dimensions
4 5/16 x 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. (11 x 6.4 x 6.4 cm)
Signatures
no signature
Inscriptions
no inscripyions
Markings
no marks
Credit Line
Gift of Paul F. Walter
Accession Number
83.108.7
Rights
Creative Commons-BY
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