Sweetmeat or Butter Bowl and Cover

ManufacturerPossibly Boston and Sandwich Glass Works American, 1826-1888

Place of OriginNew England

Date1829-1830

DimensionsH with cover 11.7 cm (4 5/8 in.); H without cover 7.1 cm (2 25/32 in.); D rim 12.5 cm (4 15/16 in.); D base 10.2 cm (4 1/32 in.)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1966.40A-B

Not on View

Collections

Glass

Published ReferencesRose, James H., The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, exh. cat., Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, N.Y., 1954, p. 65, no. 34, pl. I, no. 34 (Elsholz).

Rose, James H., "Unrecorded Rarities in Lacy Glass," Antiques, vol. 65, March 1954, pp. 224-227 (Reprint 2, pp. 143-146), p. 227, top right.

Rogers, 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, no. 4, repr. cover.

Rogers, Millard F., Jr., "The Story of American Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 9, no. 3, Autumn 1966, pp. 51-70; rev. and reprinted as a Toledo Museum handbook, repr. p. 61.

Rogers, Millard F., Jr., "Treasures from Toledo, Ohio: The European and American Glass Collection," Apollo, vol. 86, December 1967, pp. 478-485, p. 484, repr. fig. 14.

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. 304, no. 347.