Butter Dish and Cover

Manufacturer Challinor, Taylor and Company (American, 1883/1884-1891)

Manufacturer United States Glass Company (American)

Date1884-1891

DimensionsH (with cover): 15.4 cm (6 1/16 in.); H (dish): 5.1 cm (2 in.); Rim Diam (dish): 18.7 cm (7 3/8 in.); Base Diam: 11.55 cm (4 9/16 in.); Rim Diam (cover): 14.3 cm (5 5/8 in.)

MediumOpal lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. E. M. Belknap

Object number

1965.193A-B

Not on View

DescriptionDish: pressed upright in a female mold of three vertical sections bearing Challinor's 313 Opal pattern (a tree-of-life pattern on two sections and a pattern of daisies on the third), with a base plate that formed the lower edge and underside of the base, with a cap ring that formed the upper edge of the rim and flower-patterned shoulder, by a male plunger bearing a chrysanthemum-like flower pattern for the bottom interior of the bowl. No fire-polishing. No pontil mark. Cover: pressed upside down in a female mold of three vertical sections bearing the same pattern as the bowl, in conjunction with a one-piece female mold that formed the top of the finial, with a cap ring that formed the lower edge and underside of the rim, by a plain male plunger. No fire-polishing. No pontil mark.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Victorian Glass, Northboro, MA, author, 1944, p. 254, pl. 80, top (repr. of page from Challinor, Taylor and Company, catalogue, n.d. [1884-91], which lists this glass as "313 Opal Ware").

Innes, Lowell, Pittsburgh Glass, 1791-1891: A History and Guide for Collectors, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1976, p. 409, fig. 455 (repr. of page from a United States Glass Company 1891 catalogue illustrating other forms, also called 313 Opal Ware).

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. 508, no. 850, colorpl. 850, p. 264.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Belknap Collection of Milk Glass, exh. cat., 1965.