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Finger Bowl

Place of OriginUnited States

Date1855-1865

DimensionsD rim 11.4 cm (4 1/2 in.); D base 6.5 cm (2 9/16 in.); H 7.9 cm (3 1/8 in.)

MediumDeep purplish-blue lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.156

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upright in a female mold of three vertical sections bearing a variant of the Bigler pattern, with a base plate bearing a rayed pattern of six long diamonds alternating with six short diamonds that formed the base, by a plain male plunger. The moldmarks extend from the bottom edge of the short, plain round foot upward to the rim along the left sides of three vertical grooves. Rim fire-polished. Polished pontil mark.

Published ReferencesAlice Winchester, "American Lacy and Pressed Glass, 1830-1850," Antiques, vol. 100, July 1971, repr. p. 83, frontis.

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. 477, no. 780.