Bowl and Cover

Manufacturer James B. Lyon and Company (American, 1848-1891)

Date1865-1875

DimensionsH (with cover): 11.95 cm (4 11/16 in.); H (without cover): 4.3 cm (1 11/16 in.); Rim Diam: 14.6 cm (5 3/4 in.); Max Diam (body): 15.8 cm (6 7/32 in.); Base Diam: 6.2 cm (2 7/16 in.)

MediumDeep cobalt-blue soda-lime glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.37

Not on View

DescriptionBowl: pressed in a one piece female mold bearing the Mitre Diamond pattern, with a cap ring that formed the Mitre Diamond rim, by a plain male plunger. No pontil mark. No fire-polishing. Cover: pressed upside down in a one-piece female mold in the same manner as the bowl, in conjunction with a two-piece female mold that formed the finial and its stem, with a cap ring that formed the Mitre Diamond rim, by a plain male plunger. No fire-polishing. No pontil mark.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Early American Pressed Glass, Wellesley Hills, MA, author, 1960, pp. 128-130 (Mitre Diamond, or so-called sawtooth, pattern), pl. 40, top, center (similar covered bowl).

Watkins, Lura Woodside, "Pressed Glass of the New England Glass Company: An Early Catalogue at the Corning Museum," Journal of Glass Studies, vol. 22, 1970, pp. 149-164, pp. 155-156, fig. 7 (repr. of page from New England Glass Company 1869 catalogue, pl. 14, no. 783).

Innes, Lowell, Pittsburgh Glass, 1791-1891: A History and Guide for Collectors, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1976, p. 309, fig. 331 (repr. of H. L. Ringwalt's 2nd Annual Circular, January 1, 1860, bottom left, no. 149); p. 307, fig. 330 (repr. of page from James B. Lyon and Company 1861 catalogue, p. 5 ["high foot 6 inch Mitre Diamond covered bowl"]).

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. 479, no. 785, colorpl. 785, p. 263.