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ManufacturerPossibly Fort Pitt Glass Works (American)

Date1835-1840

DimensionsRim Diam: 7 21/32 in. (19.5 cm); Base Diam: 3 25/32 in. (9.7 cm); H: 1 13/32 in. (3.6 cm)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1966.61

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upside down over a plain male mold by a female plunger bearing the pattern and the large beaded foot ring.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, MA, author, 1947, p. 307, pl. 94, top left.

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. 108, no. 373.

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. 377, no. 511.

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