Dish

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Dish

Place of OriginMidwest

Date1835-1845

DimensionsRim L: 22.8 cm (9 in.); Rim W: 16.6 cm (6 17/32 in.); Base L: 15.0 cm (5 7/8 in.); Base W: 8.6 cm (3 3/8 in.); H 4.6 cm (1 25/32 in.)

MediumColorless glass with a dull appearance.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1966.42

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upside down over a plain male mold that formed the interior by a female plunger bearing the pattern that possibly also formed the bull's eyes under each scallop and arch, with a cap ring that formed the edge of the scalloped rim.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Web, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, M.A., author, 1947, pl. 102, top left

Innes, Lowell, Pittsburgh Glass, 1791-1891: A History and Guide for Collectors, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1976, p. 274, fig. 285, no. 2

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. 363, no. 481.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Early American Pressed Glass, exhibition, January 28-March 6, 1966 (no catalog).