A cylindrical, slightly ovoid shaped, clear glass tumbler with three painted butterflies on the front. On the top left is a small butterfy with a burnt orange body with short orange antennae, and pale yellow wings, with green accents in the center and towrds the outer parts of the wings. The wings also have brown edges and six small brown spots; one on each of the top wings and two on each of the bottom wings. Beside this, to the right, is a small butterfly with a long grey body with orange stripes, and four, slender, light blue-grey wings, with three orange spots on each of the top wings. The butterfly has long, thin, black legs and curling grey antennae. Below both of these butterflies, slightly to the left. is a larger butterfly with sky blue wings and a brown and ochre body with orange spots and long grey antennae. A deep purple section grows from where the body joins the wings, with brown lines tracing the wings, inticating a scale-like structure. The top two wings are edged with dark brown.

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No. 279 Beer Tumbler

This is a Beer tumbler. It was manufactured by J. & L. Lobmeyr GmbH.

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from J. & L. Lobmeyr GmbH as part of The Virtue in Vice.

It is dated 2007 and we acquired it in 2009. Its medium is mouth-blown and painted glass. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

It is credited Museum purchase through gift of Dale and Doug Anderson, Anonymous Donor, Arthur Liu, and Prairie Pictures, Inc. and from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.

Female Mask and Butterflies Matchsafe
silver.
Gift of Stephen W. Brener and Carol B. Brener.
1978-146-1304

Drawing, Design for Textile or Wallpaper: Butterflies

Drawing, Design for Textile or Wallpaper: Butterflies
brush and gouache, graphite on cream paper.
Gift of Harvey Smith.
1968-107-25

Cup And Saucer
soft-paste porcelain with transfer-printed underglaze cobalt decoration.
Bequest of Erskine Hewitt.
1938-57-596-a,b

Its dimensions are

H x diam.: 14.5 x 8.6 cm (5 11/16 x 3 3/8 in.)

Cite this object as

No. 279 Beer Tumbler; Manufactured by J. & L. Lobmeyr GmbH (Austria); USA; mouth-blown and painted glass; H x diam.: 14.5 x 8.6 cm (5 11/16 x 3 3/8 in.); Museum purchase through gift of Dale and Doug Anderson, Anonymous Donor, Arthur Liu, and Prairie Pictures, Inc. and from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund; 2009-18-130

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Virtue in Vice.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2E1pi/
Accession Number 2009-18-130
Object ID 18732103