Celery Vase

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Celery Vase

Place of OriginProbably Midwest

Date1870-1890

DimensionsH: 21.7 cm (8 17/32 in.); Rim Diam: 10.2 cm (4 in.); Base Diam: 9.7 cm (3 13/16 in.)

MediumPale electric-blue lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.112

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upright in a female mold of two vertical sections bearing the so-called honeycomb pattern, with a plain, slightly conical base plate that formed the underside of the foot, by a plain male plunger that also formed the scalloped rim and ridge below it. The two moldmarks extend from the bottom of the edge of the foot and across the top of the foot, and up the opposite edges of the octagonal stem to the bowl, and then continue upward to the lower part of the scalloped rim in a zigzag pattern following the outline of the honeycomb cells. No pontil mark.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Early American Pressed Glass, Wellesley Hills, MA, author, 1960, pp. 198-199 (Cincinnati, Vernon, or so-called honeycomb, pattern), form no. 3.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pp. 399, 405, repr. p. 213, no. 1.

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. 511, no. 857.