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Vase

Place of OriginProbably New England

Date1845-1855

DimensionsH: 26.7 cm (10 1/2 in.); Rim W: 12.7 cm (5 in.); Base W: 13.35 cm (5 1/4 in.)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.34

Not on View

DescriptionBowl pressed in the same manner and in the same mold as ACGC, p. 454, no. 720 but reheated and tooled upright into a four-compartment vase. Joined by a wafer to a hexagonal base pressed in the same manner as ACGC, p. 454, no. 720 but in a different mold.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 383, pl. 195, no. 5 (variant), pl. 201, no. 42 (similar hexagonal base).

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. 455, no. 721.