Tumbler
Medium
Pressed purple marble glass
Dimensions
H. 3 5/16 in. (8.4 cm)
Classification
Tumbler
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946
Accession Number
46.140.721
Art Historical Context
Step into the Victorian era with this elegant *Tumbler* from Challinor, Taylor and Company crafted between 1870 and 1890. Produced by the British firm renowned for exporting fine glassware to America, this petite drinking glass (just 3 5/16 inches tall) exemplifies the democratized luxury of the Gilded Age. Housed in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's American Wing, it was generously gifted by Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles in 1946, highlighting its place in everyday American domestic life. The tumbler's standout feature is its pressed purple marble glass—a clever industrial technique where molten g...
About the Artist
Challinor, Taylor and Company · 1866–1891
Challinor, Taylor and Company was an American pressed glass manufacturer founded in 1866 and based in Tarentum, Pennsylvania, a community along the Allegheny River that was home to several of the nineteenth century's most innovative glassmakers. The firm operated until 1891, when it was absorbed into the United States Glass Company as Factory C — part of the great industrial consolidation that res...