Footed Bowl

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Footed Bowl

Manufacturer Atterbury and Company (American, about 1865-1894)

Place of OriginUnited States

Date1885-1895

Dimensions3 1/4 × 8 11/16 × 3 7/8 in. (8.3 × 22 × 9.8 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus

Object number

1917.738

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upright in a one-piece female mold that formed the upper section of the bowl, in conjunction with a female mold of two vertical sections that formed the base, and a male plug, or base plate, that formed the underside of the base, and with a cap ring that formed the openwork, or so-called lace, edge, by a plain male plunger. Openwork edge reheated and formed into this undulating shape by tooling. No pontil mark. Opal non-lead glass.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Early American Pressed Glass, Wellesley Hills, Mass., author, 1960, p. 624, pl. 175, right.

Belknap, E. M., Milk Glass, New York, Crown, 1949, repr. p. 149, no. 137.

Ferson, Regis F. and Mary Fleming Ferson, Yesterday's Milk Glass Today, Pittsburgh, authors, 1981, no. 52 (same bowl with vertical lace edge).

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. 509, no. 854.