Cruet

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Cruet

Place of OriginProbably Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Date1815-1840

DimensionsH: 18.4 cm (7 1/4 in.); Base Diam: 6.6 cm (2 19/32 in.)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Mary Moulton Olin

Object number

1929.198

Not on View

DescriptionBlown in a one-piece dip mold patterned with 16 vertical ribs. Expanded and finished by tooling. Applied hollow handle, the end turned up and over upon itself. The ribs extend onto the base, terminating in a plain circle about 1.0 cm (3/8 in.) in diameter near the center. Rough pontil mark.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 56, pl. 25, no. 1; p. 157, pl. 53, no. 5.

Innes, Lowell, Pittsburgh Glass, 1791-1891: A History and Guide for Collectors, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1976, pp. 178-190, fig. 167, no. 1.

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. 194, no. 180.