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"Royal Flemish" covered jar

Mount Washington Glassworks (active 1837–1894)
1889–1894
Object Place: New Bedford, Massachusetts

Medium/Technique Glass, stained and gilded
Dimensions Overall: 15.2 × 14.6 cm (6 × 5 3/4 in.)
Credit Line Gift of the Estate of Judith Jackson Hanson in memory of Peter Krau Jackson
Accession Number2019.1805a-b
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsGlass

InscriptionsGold star painted onto clear base
ProvenanceAround 1891, acquired by John Luther Jackson [see note]; by descent to his son, John Spencer Jackson (b. 1894 - d. 1989), Chicago; by descent to his son, Peter Krau Jackson (b. 1922 - d. 2003), Sturgis, Michigan; 2003, by descent to his sister, Judy Jackson Hanson (b. 1927 - d. 2019), Evans, Georgia; 2019, gift of the Estate of Judy Jackson Hanson to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 25, 2019)

NOTE:
Mr. Jackson, a patent lawyer in Chicago, possibly received the jar as a wedding gift on his marriage to Laura E. Bond, June 24, 1891.