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Bowl

Place of OriginUnited States, Midwest region

Date1835-1850

DimensionsRim L: 9 17/32 in. (24.2 cm); Rim W: 7 5/16 in. (18.6 cm); Base L: 6 in. (15.2 cm); Base W: 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm); H: 2 15/32 in. (6.3 cm)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.155

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upright, probably in a one-piece female mold bearing the pattern, by a plain male plunger. Very coarse stippling. Beaded foot ring. Faint shear mark on plain interior surface.

Published ReferencesSpillman, Jane S., American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Museum of Glass Catalog Series, Corning, N.Y., Corning Museum of Glass, 1981, p. 88, no. 240.

Welker, John and Elizabeth Welker, Pressed Glass in America; Encyclopedia of the First Hundred Years, 1825-1925, Ivyland, Pa., Antique Acres Press, 1985, p. 239, fig. 8-22, bottom row, center.

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. 419, no. 628.