Dish

ManufacturerPossibly Boston and Sandwich Glass Works (American, 1826-1888)

Date1832-1835; possibly as late as 1840

DimensionsL rim 15.7 cm (6 3/16 in.); W rim 9.9 cm (3 29/32 in.); L base 8.7 cm (3 15/32 in.); W base 4.5 cm (1 11/16 in.); H 3.7 cm (1 15/32 in.)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number

1962.13

Not on View

DescriptionPressed, probably upside down, over a plain male mold by a female plunger bearing the pattern. Plain slightly rounded foot ring.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Web, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, Mass., author, 1947, p. 310, pl. 97, top

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pl. 128.

Rose, James H., The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, exh. cat., Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, 1954, p. 85, no. 203.

Spillman, Jane S., American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Museum of Glass Catalog Series, Corning, NY, Corning Museum of Glass, 1981, p. 104, no. 308.

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, MA, Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 1, no. 240.

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. 399, no. 574.