Bowl
Bowl
ManufacturerProbably
New England Glass Company
(American, 1818-1888)
Date1840-1850
DimensionsRim Diam: 6 5/16 in. (16.0 cm); Base Diam: 3 7/16 in. (8.8 cm); H: 1 5/32 in. (2.9 cm)
MediumColorless glass.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth
Object number
1964.73
Not on View
DescriptionPressed, probably upside down, over a plain male mold by a female plunger bearing the industries pattern. Coarse stippling. Broad flat foot ring.
Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, Mass., author, 1947, p. 297, repr. pl. 89, left.
Rose, James H., The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, exh. cat., Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, N.Y., 1954, p. 75, no. 114.
Keefe, John W., "American Lacy and Pressed Glass in the Toledo Museum of Art," Antiques, vol. 100, July 1971, pp. 104-109 (Reprint 2, pp. 151-156), p. 104, repr. fig. 1, 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. 401, no. 580.
Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Early American Pressed Glass, exhibition, January 28-March 6, 1966 (no catalog).
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