Dish

Place of OriginMidwest

Date1835-1850

DimensionsRIm L: 8 31/32 in. (22.8 cm); Rim W: 6 13/32 in. (16.3 cm); Base L: 5 1/2 in. (14.0 cm); Base W: 3 1/8 in. (8.0 cm); H: 1 13/16 in. (4.6 cm)

MediumColorless glass with a dull, almost cloudy, finish.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1966.88

Not on View

DescriptionPressed, probably upside down, over a plain male mold by a female plunger bearing the pattern. The piece rests on the bull's-eyes around the edge of the base.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, MA., author, 1947, pl. 102, top right.

Innes, Lowell, Pittsburgh Glass, 1791-1891: A History and Guide for Collectors, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1976, pp. 273-274, fig. 284, no. 1.

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. 48, no. 93.

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, MA, Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 3, no. 1041.

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. 396, no. 564.

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