Cameo glass vase
date: label: date made
content: 1880s
label: date made
content: 1886-87
name: label: maker
content: Gillinder & Sons
notes: label: Description
content: Gilllinder & Sons of Philadelphia produced this rare example of American cameo glass. Cameo glass was one of the most difficult and expensive types of Art Glass to produce. In the 1870s British glassmakers had revived the ancient technique of cameo--carving a pattern from the outer layers of a form composed of two or more joined layers of glass. Gillinder & Sons offered a cameo line for about two years, the longest known period of cameo glass production in the United States.
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content: Home and Community Life: Ceramics and Glass
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. James Gillinder Masland
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CE.76.27
label: accession number
content: 320034
objectType: label: Object Name
content: vase
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 5/16 in x 4 7/8 in; 21.082 cm x 12.3825 cm