Bowl

Place of OriginProbably New England

Date1830-1845

DimensionsRim Diam: 6 13/32 in. (16.3 cm); Base Diam: 3 3/16 in. (8.1 cm); H: 1 9/16 in. (4.0 cm)

MediumFairly thick colorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1966.69

Not on View

DescriptionPressed, probably upside down, over a plain male mold by a female plunger bearing the pattern. The background of the sides is stippled in a herringbone pattern, except around the hearts; the base is stippled at the ends of the cross, but the backgrounds around the swords are plain. Heavy triangular cross-section foot ring.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, MA, author, 1947, p. 298, pl. 90, top right.

Spillman, Jane S., American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Museum of Glass Catalog Series, Corning, NY, Corning Museum of Glass, 1981, p. 107, no. 313.

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. 376, no. 510.

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