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Eggcup

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

Date1860-1870

DimensionsH: 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm); Rim Diam: 2 1/2 in. (6.3 cm); Base Diam: 2 5/16 in. (5.85 cm)

MediumLight translucent blue alabaster glass with a trace of lead.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.152

Not on View

DescriptionEntire piece pressed upright in a female mold of three vertical sections bearing the so-called bull's-eye-and-bar pattern that formed the bowl and hexagonal stem, with three plain sections that formed a hollow cylinder at the lower end of the stem, from which the foot was formed by the Magoun and Sweeney patent methods (see 1990.66), with a plain, almost flat base plate that formed the underside of the foot, with a cap ring that formed the rim and the plain area below it, by a plain male plunger. The moldmarks rise vertically from the lower edge of the foot along the edges of alternate panels to the lower edge of the plain rim. No pontil mark.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, Mass., author, 1947, p. 528, pl. 216, top right.

Lee, Ruth Webb, "Rarities in Pattern Glass," Antiques, vol. 35, March 1935, p. 95, fig. 10, right.

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. 470, no. 761.