Dish and Cover
Manufacturer: Probably Eagle Glass and Manufacturing Company (American, 1894-1925)
Date: 1898-1900
Dimensions:
H (with cover): 9.8 cm (3 7/8 in.); H (without cover): 4.5 cm (1 25/32 in.); Rim L (dish): 15.6 cm (6 5/32 in.); Rim W: 11.5 cm (4 1/2 in.); Base L: 11.5 cm (4 1/2 in.); Base W: 5.5 cm (2 1/8 in.).
Medium: Opal non-lead glass.
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Margaret Hill Wittmann
Object number: 1984.78
DescriptionDish: pressed upright in a two-piece female mold of oval form with basket-weave decoration on the sides and a ribbon on either side bearing an inscription, with a base plate that formed the bottom and the inscription on it, by a plain male plunger. Cover: pressed upside down in a two-piece female mold of oval form bearing an eagle with outstretched wings over three inscribed eggs in strawlike bedding, by a plain, contoured male plunger that formed the interior.
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