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Jar and Cover

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

Date1885-1895

DimensionsH (with cover): 16.05 cm (6 5/16 in.); Rim Diam: 6.5 cm (2 9/16 in.); Base Diam: 6.4 cm (2 17/32 in.)

MediumOpal glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. E. M. Belknap

Object number

1965.194A-C

Not on View

DescriptionJar: blown in a mold of three vertical sections and a plain base plate with a slightly raised central section and cracked off. Rim left ragged. Cover: an opal glass insert (an almost flat disc), pressed, probably upside down, in a female mold bearing an American eagle by a plain male plunger, is secured by a tin-plated screw cap to the jar.

Published ReferencesKovel, Ralph M. and Terry H. Kovel, The Official Bottle Price List, New York, Crown, 1971, repr. p. 101.

Ferson, Regis F. and Mary Fleming Ferson, Yesterday's Milk Glass Today, Pittsburgh, authors, 1981, pp. 103-104, no. 510.

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. 545, no. 902.

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