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Bowl

ManufacturerPossibly New England Glass Company (American, 1818-1888)

Place of Originpossibly Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Date1840-1850

Dimensions1 1/4 × 3 7/16 × 6 5/16 in. (3.1 × 8.8 × 16 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationManuscripts

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.581

Not on View

DescriptionMade in a similar mold and in the same manner as 1964.73, but with a scalloped cap ring, finer stippling, and a rounded foot ring. Colorless glass.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Web, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, Mass., author, 1947, p. 279, pl. 89, right.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pl. 141, no. 6.

Rose, James H., The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, exh. cat., Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, N.Y., 1954, p. 75, no. 116.

Innes, Lowell, Pittsburgh Glass, 1791-1891: A History and Guide for Collectors, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1976, p. 272, fig. 281.

Spillman, Jane S., American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Museum of Glass Catalog Series, Corning, N.Y., Corning Museum of Glass, 1981, p. 105, no. 310.

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, Mass., Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 2, no. 1143, vol. 3, no. 1532 (variant).

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. 402, no. 581.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, The New England Glass Company, 1818-1888, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1963, p. 71, no. 127.