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Spoon Holder

ManufacturerPossibly American Flint Glass Works (American, 1764 -1774)

ManufacturerPossibly M'Kee and Brothers (American, 1854-1901, 1904-1910)

Date1855-1865

DimensionsH: 11.6 cm (4 9/16 in.); Rim W: 7.8 cm (3 1/16 in.); Base Diam: 6.5 cm (2 9/16 in.)

MediumFiery opalescent and colorless lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.127

Not on View

DescriptionPressed, probably upright, in a female mold of three vertical sections bearing the Harp, or Lyre, pattern that formed the hexagonal body and circular stem and foot, with a plain, slightly domed base plate that formed the underside and lower edge of the foot, by a plain male plunger that formed the interior and the top of the rim. The moldmarks extend from the lower edge of the foot to the top of the rim. No pontil mark.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 399, repr. pl. 211, no. 7.

Rogers, 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. 81.

Keefe, John W., "American Lacy and Pressed Glass in the Toledo Museum of Art," Antiques, vol. 100, July 1971, pp. 104-109 (Reprint 2, pp. 151-156), p. 108, repr. fig. 8.

M'Kee and Brothers, M'Kee Victorian Glass: Five Complete Glass Catalogs from 1859/60 to 1871, ed. with intro. and test by Lowell Innes and Jane S. Spillman, Corning, NY, and New York, Corning Museum of Glass in association with Dover, 1981, p. 22, bottom (repr. of page from M'Kee 1859-60 catalogue, second from left: "Spoon Holder, $2.30 per doz.").

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. 481, no. 789, colorpl. 789, p. 263.