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Footed Bowl

ManufacturerPossibly Mantua Glass Works (American, 1821-1829)

Place of OriginProbably Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Date1815-1840

DimensionsH: 6.4 cm (2 1/2 in.); Rim Diam: 15.7 cm (6 3/16 in.); Base Diam: 5.8 cm (2 9/32 in.)

MediumAmethyst lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

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

Object number

1953.165

Not on View

DescriptionBowl blown in a one-piece dip mold patterned with 16 vertical ribs. Expanded and finished by tooling. Outward-folded rim. Pattern-molded foot of arched shape applied and finished by tooling. Small, rough pontil mark on the center of the otherwise smooth base.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pp. 138-141, pl. 52, no. 8; pp. 227-228.

Rogers, Millard F., Jr., "American Glass: 1608-1940, " Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 4, no. 3, Summer 1961, pp. 51-70, repr. cover.

Rogers, Millard F., Jr., "The Story of American Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 9, no. 3, Autumn 1966, pp. 51-70; rev. and reprinted as a Toledo Museum handbook, repr. cover, p. 64.

Rogers, Millard F., Jr., "American Glass [TMA's purchase from McKearin collection]," Antiques, vol. 78, October 1960, pp. 364, 370, p. 484, fig. 15.

Rogers, Millard F., "The European and American glass collection," Apollo, vol. 86, no. 70, Dec. 1967, repr. (b&w) fig. 15, p. 484.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1969, repr. p. 92.

Innes, Lowell, Early Glass of the Pittsburgh District, 1797-1900, exh. cat., Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 1949, frontis.

Innes, Lowell, Pittsburgh Glass, 1791-1891: A History and Guide for Collectors, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1976, pp. 181-182, figs. 161, 162 (same form of bowl, the first of amethyst glass, the second of cobalt blue, both patterned with 12 ribs; the plain sloping foot on each was applied from a separate gather and tooled).

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. 193, no. 176, colorpl. 176, p. 155.

"To Visit: Toledo Museum's Gallery of Glass..." Spinning Wheel, vol. 27, no. 2, March 1971; p. 62, repr.

Fundaburk, Emma Lila and Davenport, Thomas G.; Art in Public Places in the United States; Bowling Green, 1975; repr. no. 254, p. 183.

Allison, Grace, "Toledo, Ohio, Museum of art has most extensive glass collection in the country," Tri-State Trader, Apr. 22, 1978, repr. p. 43.