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

Date1860-1870

DimensionsDiam: 16.2 cm (6 3/8 in.)

MediumTransparent yellowish green (so-called Vaseline) lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.122

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upright in a one-piece female mold bearing the so-called waffle pattern, with a cap ring that formed the scalloped rim, by a plain male plunger. No fire-polishing. No pontil mark.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Early American Pressed Glass, Wellesley Hills, Mass., author, 1960, pp. 143-145 (waffle pattern), form no. 11, pl. 37, top right.

Welker, John and Elizabeth Welker, Pressed Glass in America; Encyclopedia of the First Hundred Years, 1825-1925, Ivyland, Pa., Antique Acres Press, 1985, p. 248, fig. 8-44, top row, second from right (bowl).

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. 484, no. 795.