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

ManufacturerPossibly South Boston Flint Glass Works (American, 1813-1827)

Date1813-1830

DimensionsH: 1 25/32 in. (4.5 cm); Rim L: 3 7/32 in. (8.15 cm); Rim W: 2 9/32 in. (5.8 cm); Base L: 2 9/32 in. (5.8 cm); Base W: 1 15/32 in. (3.7 cm)

MediumThick colorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1953.18C

Not on View

DescriptionBlown, by the blow-over and crack-off process, in a mold of two vertical sections and a base plate bearing a twelve-petaled rosette with a boss in the center. Rim ground and polished. No pontil mark.

Published ReferencesWatkins, Lura Woodside, Cambridge Glass, 1818-1888: The Story of the New England Glass Company, Boston, Marshall Jones, 1930; reprint, New York, Bramball House, 1953, pp. 108-111.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 144.

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. 211, no. 219.