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

Manufacturer New England Glass Company (American, 1818-1888)

Place of OriginUnited States

Date1813-1830

DimensionsRim L: 3 5/32 in. (8.0 cm); Rim W: 2 1/16 in. (5.2 cm); Base L: 2 3/16 in. (5.5 cm); Rim W: 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm); H: 1 21/32 in. (4.2 cm)

MediumThick colorless glass; mold-blown.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.48

Not on View

DescriptionBlown, by the blow-over and crack-off process, in a mold, probably of two vertical sections and a base plate bearing a pattern of twenty-four rays radiating from the center to the edges. Serrated rim cut and polished. No pontil mark.

Published ReferencesWatkins, Lura Woodside, Cambridge Glass, 1818-1888: The Story of the New England Glass Company, Boston, Marshall Jones, 1930; reprint, New York, Bramball House, 1953, pp. 108-111.

Watkins, Lura Woodside, "An Antecedent of Three-Mold Glass," Antiques, vol. 36, August 1939, pp. 68-70 (Reprint 1, pp. 57-59), pp. 68-70, fig. 1, no. D, top row.

Lee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, Mass., author, 1947, p. 163, pl. 26, center row, right.

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. 207, no. 208.