Smithsonian American Art Museum
Green Glass Cane
Unidentified · ca. 1870-1910
Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century glassblowers often made “glass whimsy” canes as a diversion from commercial production. They twisted, stretched, and blew colored glass to create decorative walking sticks that were too fragile to use (George Meyer, American Folk Art Canes, 1992).
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