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

Date1818-1830

DimensionsL rim 8.1 cm (3 3/16 in.); W rim 5.5 cm (2 5/32 in.); L base 6.5 cm (2 9/16 in.); W base 3.9 cm (1 17/32 in.); H 4.1 cm (1 5/8 in.)

MediumThick, deep blue lead glass; mold blown.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.56

Not on View

DescriptionBlown, by the blow-over and crack-off process, in a mold of two vertical sections, with hinge and opening at diagonally opposite corners, and a base plate bearing a pattern of five rows of nine indented quadrangular pyramids. Rim ground and polished. No pontil mark.

Published ReferencesWatkins, Lura Woodside, "An Antecedent of Three-Mold Glass," Antiques, vol. 36, August 1939, (Reprint 1, pp. 57-59), pp. 68-70, fig. 2, right.

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

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 144.

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, p. 235; p. 240, fig. 199.

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. 206, no. 206.