Patty Pan

ManufacturerPossibly Boston and Sandwich Glass Works (American, 1826-1888)

Place of Originpossibly Sandwich, Massachusetts, United States

Date1825-1840

Dimensions1 7/16 × 2 11/16 × 5 15/16 in. (3.7 × 6.9 × 15.2 cm)

Mediumcolorless glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.217

Not on View

DescriptionBlown in a mold (McKearin G.II-18) probably for a tumbler of three vertical sections and a base plate (McKearin Rayed Type VII.A). Expanded by centrifugal force and formed into a bowl by tooling. Rim sheared and folded outward. Rough, solid pontil mark.

Published ReferencesReferences to glass classifications established in McKearin, George S., and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948.

McKearin, Helen and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978; etc., G.II-18, p. 251, pl. 88; p. 261, pl. 100, no. 32; p. 269; p. 301, Shape D-3.

Wilson, Kenneth M., American Glass, 1760-1930: The Toledo Museum of Art, New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, [Lanham, Md.]: National Book Network [distributor], c1994; 2 v. (879 p.): ill. (some col.); 32 cm., 1994, p. 238, no. 295.