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Dish

ManufacturerPossibly Hobbs, Brockunier Glass Works (American, 1890-1891)

ManufacturerPossibly West Virginia Glass Company (American, 1893-1923, possibly later)

Date1890-1900

DimensionsH: 4.0 cm (1 9/16 in.); Rim L: 10.0 cm (3 15/16 in.); Rim W: 9.8 cm (3 7/8 in.); Base W: 7.3 cm (2 7/8 in.)

MediumTransparent deep pink lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.2

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upside down over a plain male mold that formed the interior and perhaps the top of the scalloped rim, with a top plate that formed the exterior of the square base, by a female plunger, probably of two vertical sections, that formed the sides. Rim fire-polished. No pontil mark.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Early American Pressed Glass, Wellesley Hills, MA, author, 1960, pp. 595-606 (no. 264 pattern, so-called daisy-and-button pattern), form no. 27e, pl. 169 (various forms).

Revi, Albert C., American Pressed Glass and Figure Bottles, New York and Toronto, Nelson, 1964, p. 183, right (repr. of page from ca. 1885-90 Hobbs, Brockunier catalogue).

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. 513, no. 861.