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Bowl

Place of OriginProbably New England

Date1830-1835

DimensionsRim Diam: 10 15/32 in. (26.6 cm); Base Diam: 4 13/16 in. (12.3 cm); H: 2 9/16 in. (6.5 cm)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1966.92

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upside down over a plain male mold by a female plunger bearing the pattern that formed the interior and shoulder of the bowl, with a cap ring that formed the edge of the rim of alternating large shallow single scallops and triple scallops and the narrow vertical band below it.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, MA, author, 1947, pp. 376, 382, pl. 141, left (compote).

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. 72, no. 172 (compote).

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, MA, Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 1, no. 393.

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. 361, 477.

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