Bowl

Place of OriginEastern United States

Date1815-1840

Dimensions7/8 × 4 3/16 × 4 in. (2.3 × 10.7 × 10.2 cm)

Mediumcolorless glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.240

Not on View

DescriptionBlown in a mold (McKearin G.II-1) probably for a small tumbler of three vertical sections and a base plate (McKearin Rayed Type III). Formed into a bowl by tooling. Rim sheared, tooled, and folded outward. Rough, open 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-1, p. 250, pl. 87; p. 261, pl. 100, no. 27; p. 301.

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. 293.