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Spoon Holder

ManufacturerProbably Boston and Sandwich Glass Works (American, 1826-1888)

Date1850-1865

DimensionsH: 4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm); Rim Diam: 3 11/32 in. (8.5 cm); Base Diam: 2 11/16 in. (6.8 cm)

MediumTranslucent blue alabaster glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.22

Not on View

DescriptionEntire piece pressed upright in a female mold of three vertical sections bearing the so-called star-and-printie pattern that formed the outer edge of the foot, with a base plate with a shallow boss that formed the rest of the foot, by a plain male plunger that formed the top edge of the rim and the interior. The moldmarks extend from the underside of the outer edge of the foot vertically to the top of the rim. The vertical sections each extend horizontally inward at the bottom about 1.0 cm (1/3 in.) to form the outer edge and part of the underside of the foot. No fire-polishing. No pontil mark.

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. 247, no. 970.

Spillman, Jane Shadel, Glass Tableware, Bowls, and Vases, New York, Knopf, 1982, no. 323.

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. 472, no. 765, colorpl. 765, p. 262.