Green art glass goblet belonging to Etta Moten Barnett: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

This is a green art glass goblet. It is a tall narrow glass with a green glass bowl. The bowl is triangular and narrows to the stem without pinching into a waist. The goblet stem is clear down to the bottom where the glass forms a knot, in the center of which is a core of dark green. Under the know is the flat base. There is a black rectangular sticker on the base. On the sticker is gold text that reads “HAND MADE / 38-401 KROSNO / UL.KS. J . POPIELUSZKI 92 / MADE in POLAND.”

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1992
• Created by: J. Popieluszki, Polish
• Owned by: Etta Moten Barnett, American, 1901 - 2004
• Type: wine glasses
• Medium: glass
• Dimensions: H x W: 10 1/16 × 4 3/16 in. (25.6 × 10.6 cm)
• Place made: Poland, Europe
• Place used: Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Actors
• Topic: Broadway Theatre
• Topic: Cooking and dining
• Topic: Singers (Musicians)
• Topic: Women
• Object number: A2022.13.1.16
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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