Goblet
New England Glass Company
1855–70
Medium
Free-blown silvered glass
Dimensions
H. 7 9/16 in. (19.2 cm); Diam. 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm)
Classification
Goblet
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Stuart P. Feld, 1968
Accession Number
68.196
About the Artist
New England 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...