Plate or Tray
Manufacturer: Possibly Boston and Sandwich Glass Works (American, 1826-1888)
Date: 1835-1840
Dimensions:
H: 4.7 cm (1 27/32 in.); Rim L: 29.8 cm (11 3/4 in.); Rim W: 21.1 cm (8 5/16 in.)
Medium: Colorless glass; pressed.
Place of Origin: Massachusetts
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Museum Purchase
Object number: 1962.12
Label Text:In 1829 Deming Jarves of the Boston & Sandwich Glass Co. patented a process of pressing a patterned mold onto a sheet of soft glass that then slumped into a mold of the desired shape. This eliminated the necessity of costly molds for each shape and pattern. By 1830 there were presses that made it possible to press an open handle as an integral part of a pitcher. Within just a few years, a glassmaker succeeded in pressing this remarkable tray with its pierced rim and openwork handles.
DescriptionPressed upside down over a plain male mold that formed the interior of the tray, the edge of the rim, and the holes in the chain links and handles, by a female plunger bearing all of the pattern, which appears on the exterior of the piece, with a cap ring that formed the stippled underside of the chain and handled rim and the plain vertical edge between the rim and the bottom of the tray. Broad ribbed foot ring.
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