Remember Me, Victorian Hand-blown Glass Sentiment Mug (with Original Rim Imperfection) Museum of Modern Art Arp Finland and the Kola Peninsula

Finland and the Kola Peninsula

To my eye just a  fabulous thing in all regards

at least for a bit

handle measures 1" across

I do wonder if it was designed as a tool to be used for anything else

Remember Me, Victorian Hand-blown Glass Sentiment Mug (with Original Rim Imperfection) Museum of Modern Art Arp Finland and the Kola PeninsulaI don't do much with glass, but I couldn't resist this handblown mug with "Remember Me" hand etched across it, feeling close kin in style, sentiment, and scale, too to the 19th c. English transferware child's cups I love so much and which I like to lump into the larger category of love tokens. Examples of sentiment and souvenir glass like this seem to date all the way from the 1850s through to the early 20th century; the ruby red color is an enamel