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Celery Stand

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

Date1800-1825

DimensionsH: 19.6 cm (7 23/32 in.); Rim Diam: 10.9 cm (4 9/32 in.); Base Diam: 9.9 cm (3 7/8 in.)

MediumColorless glass with a grayish cast.

ClassificationGlass

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

Object number

1959.47

On View

Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion (2444 Monroe Street), Glass Pavilion Gallery, 3

DescriptionBowl blown and finished by tooling. Superimposed gather around the lower section patterned in a dip mold with 32 flutes to produce gadrooning. Joined by a wafer and a short cylindrical stem to a slightly domed circular foot tooled from a third applied gather. Rough, open pontil mark. Bowl copper-wheel-engraved with swags and festoons.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 115, repr. pl. 44, no. 5.

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.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1969, repr. p. 97.

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. 197, no. 188.