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Bowl

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

Date1830-1835

DimensionsH: 6.0 cm (2 3/8 in.); Rim L: 30.3 cm (11 15/16 in.); Rim W: 20.8 cm (8 3/16 in.)

MediumColorless lead glass with a yellowish tinge.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1964.81

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upside down over a plain male mold by a female plunger bearing the pattern, with a cap ring that formed the one centimeter (3/8 in.) thick edge of the rim. Foot ring of triangular cross section. Lower edge of rim ground with a stone wheel.

Published ReferencesRogers, Millard F., Jr., "Early American Pressed Glass: The Duckworth Gift of Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 8, no. 4, Winter 1965, pp. 74-94, repr. p. 89.

Nelson, Kirk J., "Progress Under Pressure: The Mechanization of the American Flint Glass Industry, 1820-1840," M.A. thesis, University of Delaware, May 1988, p. 57; p. 85, fig. 39; p. 86, fig. 40.

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. 310, no. 358.