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Footed Bowl

Place of OriginUnited States, probably Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Date1865-1880

DimensionsRim Diam: 6 3/16 in. (15.7 cm); Base Diam: 3 15/32 in. (8.8 cm); H: 3 1/8 in. (8.0 cm)

MediumLight translucent blue alabaster glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.115

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upright in a female mold of four vertical sections bearing the Argus pattern, with a base plate that formed the lower edge of the foot and its concave interior, with a cap ring that formed the upper edge of the rim, by a plain male plunger. The moldmarks extend vertically from the horizontal seam left by the base plate midway up the edge of the foot, through the vertical edges of the flutes above the foot, follow the curve of the lower row of ovals to the right, and then rise vertically to the rim on the sides of the ovals in the upper row. No pontil mark.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Early American Pressed Glass, Wellesley Hills, Mass., author, 1960, pp. 187-190 (so-called thumbprint pattern), pls. 15, 18, 24, 59.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 399, pl. 213, nos. 6 (compote), 7 (covered compote).

Innes, Lowell, Pittsburgh Glass, 1791-1891: A History and Guide for Collectors, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1976, pp. 334-342, fig. 357 (repr. of p. 12 from King, Son and Company catalogue of about 1857, especially bottom center, "6 in. Nappy Low & Cover"), p. 358 (Bakewell and Pears's original Argus, about 1845); p. 359 (repr. of p. 21 from Bakewell and Pears catalogue, n.d. [about 1875], center: "Argus Set," p. 360 [various forms]).

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. 496, no. 822.