Cordial

Title: Cordial
Description: New York City was an important center for machine-cut luxury glass in the middle of the nineteenth century. This partial group (2014.626.1a,b -.7) of blue-cut-to-clear glass is extraordinarily rare and perhaps even experimental when it was made in the 1850s. This is the only known blue plated cut glass attributed to the Brooklyn Flint Glass Works. The diamond pattern is thought to have been executed by Joseph Stouvenel, a highly skilled glass cutter whose works were exhibited at the New York Exhibition of 1853–54 and published during the period.
Creator: Brooklyn Flint Glass Company; Stouvenel, Joseph
Date Created: earliest: 1850; latest: 1855
Date: 2014
Provenance: Ian Simmonds purchased from a private collector in Connecticut, May, 2014. The collector purchased the set from an antique dealer at some point within the last five years.
Identifier: 2014.626.5
Medium: cut glass; Blue-cut-to-clear glass
Format: Height: 4 in. (10.2 cm)
Publisher: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Source: Purchase, Cranshaw Corporation Gift, 2014
Rights: https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documents/open-access
Contributor: American
Subject: Northeast; New York; Brooklyn; New York City; cordial glasses; drinking glasses; drinking vessels; Glass; Brooklyn Flint Glass Company; Joseph Stouvenel; cut glass