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

Date1818-1830

DimensionsH: 1 31/32 in. (5.0 cm); Rim Diam: 8 1/8 in. (20.65 cm); Base Diam: 4 1/32 in. (10.2 cm)

MediumThick colorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

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

Object number

1953.16

Not on View

DescriptionBlown, by the blow-over and crack-off process, in a mold of three vertical sections and probably a separate base plate bearing a pattern of forty-six rays extending from a plain depressed oval in the center to the edge. 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

Watkins, Lura Woodside, "An Antecedent of Three-Mold Glass," Antiques, vol. 36, August 1939, pp. 68-70 (Reprint 1, pp. 57-59), pp. 68-70, fig. 4, no. A

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., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, pp. 210-211

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. 212, no. 222.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, The New England Glass Company, 1818-1888, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1963, p. 68, no. 87.