Vase with witch ball
New England Glass Company
1850–75
Medium
Blown glass
Dimensions
H. 13 1/2 in. (34.3 cm); Diam. 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm)
Classification
Vase
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, The Edgar J. Kaufmann Foundation Gift, 1969
Accession Number
69.84.1a, b
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...