Dish

Place of OriginMidwest, probably Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Date1835-1850

DimensionsRim L: 7 1/16 in. (17.9 cm); Rim W: 4 27/32 in. (12.3 cm); Base L: 4 1/16 in. (10.3 cm); Base W: 2 7/16 in. (6.2 cm); H: 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm)

MediumColorless glass with a strong grayish-blue tinge.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1966.60

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upside down over a plain male mold by a female plunger bearing the pattern, with a cap ring that formed the scalloped edge of the rim and the plain vertical edge below. Pointed foot ring of triangular cross section.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, MA, author, 1947, p. 332, pl. 103, bottom (larger size).

Innes, Lowell, "Pittsburgh Pressed Glass I," Antiques, vol. 56, September 1949, fig. 2, left, fig. 3, bottom right.

Innes, Lowell, Early Glass of the Pittsburgh District, 1797-1900, exh. cat., Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 1949, p. 25, bottom right.

Rose, James H., The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, exh. cat., Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, 1954, p. 114, no. 424.

Innes, Lowell, Pittsburgh Glass, 1791-1891: A History and Guide for Collectors, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1976, p. 278, fig. 291, 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. 387, no. 539.

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