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

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

Date1855-1870

DimensionsDiam: 16.0 cm (6 9/32 in.)

MediumCanary-yellow lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.133

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upright in a one-piece female mold bearing the Comet pattern by a plain male plunger. 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. 396, repr. pl. 205, no. 2.

Spillman, Jane S., American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Museum of Glass Catalog Series, Corning, NY, Corning Museum of Glass, 1981, p. 258, no. 1018.

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. 794.