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ManufacturerProbably New England Glass Company (American, 1818-1888)

Date1855-1865

DimensionsH: 28.5 cm (11 7/32 in.); Base W: 11.5 cm (4 17/32 in.)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.126A

On View

Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion (2444 Monroe Street), Glass Pavilion Gallery, 3

DescriptionFont pressed upright in a female mold of three vertical sections that formed the patterned font and tapered rings below, in conjunction with a one-piece cylindrical mold from which the domed top was formed by reheating and tooling by the Magoun patent method, by a plain male plunger. Joined by a wafer to a base in the form of a dolphin on a scalloped hexagonal foot. Base pressed in a female mold of two vertical sections, each producing one half of the dolphin and foot, by a plain male plunger, the lower part a narrow oval that formed the hollow within the dolphin's head, the upper part a hexagonal that formed the hollow interior of the base and the underside of the edge of the base. Brass collar machined and threaded.

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. 84.

Rogers, Millard F., Jr., "Treasures from Toledo, Ohio: The European and American Glass Collection," Apollo, vol. 86, December 1967, pp. 478-485, repr. p. 485, fig. 18.

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. 439, no. 680.