{"id":161,"date":"2010-03-12T09:34:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T14:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=161"},"modified":"2011-02-06T16:52:21","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T21:52:21","slug":"american-pressed-glass-goblet-c-1850-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"American pressed glass goblet, c.1855"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A geometric pattern flint glass goblet in the &#8220;Excelsior&#8221; pattern, measures 5-3\/4&#8243; high and was\u00a0made by McKee Bros. of Pittsburgh, PA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_21661.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2248\" title=\"IMG_2166\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_21661.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_21661.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_21661-239x300.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The original glass base was replaced with this most unusual 4-prong painted wood base, one of the more whimsical replacement bases I have ever seen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2168.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2249\" title=\"IMG_2168\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2168.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2168-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The broken stem of the goblet can be seen on the underside.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6770.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5099\" title=\"IMG_6770\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6770.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6770.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6770-300x247.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Below is an intact &#8220;Excelsior&#8221; goblet with an offset-flute stem base. This is what my goblet would have looked like before its replaced inventive repair base was added .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC00025.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2247\" title=\"DSC00025\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC00025.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"302\" height=\"518\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/cofac\/goblets\/web\/favorites.aspx\">University of Wisconsin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A geometric pattern flint glass goblet in the &#8220;Excelsior&#8221; pattern, measures 5-3\/4&#8243; high and was\u00a0made by McKee Bros. of Pittsburgh, PA. The original glass base was replaced with this most unusual 4-prong painted wood base, one of the more whimsical replacement bases I have ever seen. The broken stem of the goblet can be seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[62,32,12],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goblet","tag-american","tag-glass","tag-wood-base"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2246,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/2246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}