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Goblet

ManufacturerPossibly Fort Pitt Glass Works (American)

Date1855-1870; possibly 1920s

DimensionsH: 15.3 cm (6 1/32 in.); Rim Diam: 9.5 cm (3 3/4 in.); Base Diam: 8.2 cm (3 7/32 in.)

MediumOpalescent lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.24

Not on View

DescriptionEntire goblet pressed upright in a female mold of three vertical sections bearing the so-called colonial pattern, with a slightly domed base plate that formed the underside of the foot, with a cap ring that probably formed the top of the rim, by a plain male plunger. The moldmarks extend from the lower edge of the foot to the rim. Rim heavily fire-polished. Polished pontil mark in center of slightly domed foot. Shear mark on interior of bowl.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Early American Pressed Glass, Wellesley Hills, MA, author, 1960, pp. 44-45 (colonial pattern), form no. 3, pl. 2, top left; pl. 10, row 2, center.

Metz, Alice Hulett, Early American Pattern Glass, Columbus, OH, Spencer-Walker, 1958, pp. 18-19.

Innes, Lowell, Pittsburgh Glass, 1791-1891: A History and Guide for Collectors, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1976, p. 304, fig. 328, top right.

Spillman, Jane S., American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Museum of Glass Catalog Series, Corning, NY, Corning Museum of Glass, 1981, p. 246, no. 964.

Spillman, Jane Shadel, Glass Tableware, Bowls, and Vases, New York, Knopf, 1982, no. 22.

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. 468, no. 754, colorpl. 754, p. 261.