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Vase or Mantle Ornament

Place of OriginProbably Philadelphia or Pittsburgh, Pa., or Baltimore, Md.

Date1800-1830

DimensionsH 21.35 cm (8 13/32 in.); D rim 12.9 cm (5 1/16 in.); D base 10.3 cm (4 1/16 in.)

MediumColorless lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

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

Object number

1959.46

Not on View

DescriptionBowl blown and finished by tooling. Applied gather on the lower section patterned in a dip mold with twenty flutes to produce gadrooning swirled to the right. Joined by a double-knopped stem to a double-domed circular foot tooled from a second applied gather. Rough, open pontil mark. Bowl engraved with copper wheels with a basket of flowers and leaf sprays on the obverse, a spray of leaves on the reverse.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pp. 53-54, pl. 22, no. 8; p. 115, repr. pl. 44, nos. 2, 3.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1950; rev. ed., 1966, p. 218, pl. 49.

Rogers, Millard F., Jr., "American Glass: 1608-1940," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 4, no. 3, Summer 1961, pp. 51-70, repr. p. 68.

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. p. 62.

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. 822, no. 1406.