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Dish

ManufacturerProbably Boston and Sandwich Glass Works (American, 1826-1888)

Date1828-1830

DimensionsD rim 24.5 cm (9 21/32 in.); H 3.3 cm (1 5/16 in.)

MediumThick (0.6 cm [1/4 in.]) colorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1966.91

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upside down in a one-piece plain female mold by a male plunger bearing the pattern using Jarves's 1828 patent method (see 1966.84). Concave interior with plain upper surface. Shear mark on underside. Some minute fins on the underside of the rim.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, Mass., author, 1947, p. 233, pl. 66.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pl. 133, fig. 1.

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, Mass., Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 1, no. 677.

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. 307, no. 353.

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