Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2012

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Celery vase (Pomona ware, first ground)

about 1885–88
Designed by Joseph Locke
Made by New England Glass Co., East Cambridge, Massachusetts
Overall: 12.1 x 8.3 cm (4 3/4 x 3 1/4 in.)
Blown glass, blue flower decoration, "wreath" crimped amber rim, applied round amber crimped foot, hand etched through acid

Classification: Glass

Object Place: East Cambridge, Massachusetts

Accession number: 2012.69

Provenance/Ownership History: Early history unknown; acquired at unknown date by Ruth Webb Lee (1894-1978); 1978, by inheritance to her daughter, the donor; 2012, gift of Dorothy-Lee Jones (Weston, Massachusetts) to the MFA. (Accession date: March 28, 2012)

Gift of Dorothy-Lee Jones