The Portland Museum of Art's glass collection ranges from the 18th century to the present, with particular strengths in 19th-century pressed glass—notably the output of the Portland Glass Company, which operated from 1863 to 1873—late 19th century and early 20th-century art glass, and contemporary studio glass. In 2002, the Museum's holdings of decorative arts were immeasurably enriched by a bequest from Sylvia Greenberg of more than 250 examples of late 19th- and early 20th-century glass, from the Cristallerie Baccarat's acid-etched neoclassical designs, to the Moorish-influenced ornamentation of glass made at New Bedford's Mount Washington Glass Works, to the metallic effects seen in the work of Louis Comfort Tiffany and the British firm of Stevens and Williams. The collection is housed in specially designed cases in the Museum's lower level.
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