Footed Vase

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Footed Vase

Place of OriginNew England

Date1855-1875

DimensionsH: 17.6 cm (6 15/16 in.); Rim Diam: 9.1 cm (3 9/16 in.); Base Diam: 9.7 cm (3 13/16 in.)

MediumHeavy colorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.39

Not on View

DescriptionBowl blown and finished by tooling. Applied hollow stem on a circular disk and a large circular foot. Bowl cut with eight panels, divided by eight wedges, with eight printies centered, more or less, above and below the end of each wedge. Each panel engraved with a grape leaf, two tendrils, and a bunch of grapes. Stem cut hexagonal. Underside of foot cut with a sixteen-pointed star.

Published ReferencesRogers, Millard F., Jr., "Early American Pressed Glass: The Duckworth Gift of Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 8, no. 4, Winter 1965, pp. 74-94, repr. p. 90.

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. 535, no. 877.