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Footed Vase

Manufacturer Bakewell, Pears and Company (American, 1843-1880)

Date1871-1881

DimensionsH: 8 3/4 in. (22.25 cm); Rim Diam: 4 3/16 in. (10.6 cm); Base Diam: 3 13/16 in. (9.7 cm)

MediumDeep blue soda-lime glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.103

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upright in a female mold of three vertical sections bearing the Saxon pattern that formed the top of the foot, stem, and lower part of the bowl, in conjunction with a one-piece plain cylindrical mold that formed the body, with a base plate that formed the underside and lower edge of the foot, by a plain male plunger. The moldmarks extend from the center edge of the foot along the edges of the stem and the bottoms of the wedges to the tops of the diamonds. Rim reheated and slightly everted by tooling. No pontil mark.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Early American Pressed Glass, Wellesley Hills, Mass., author, 1960, pp. 85-86 (Saxon pattern), pl. 20 (repr. of page from Bakewell, Pears and Company, catalogue, n.d. [about 1875]), far right (Saxon vase or celery vase).

Bakewell, Pears and Company, Bakewell, Pears & Co. Glass Catalogue, sales catalogue, n.d. (about 1875); reprint, Pittsburgh, Thomas C. Pears II, 1977, p. 28, bottom, center.

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. 499, no. 829.