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Dish

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

Date1835-1850

DimensionsRim W: 9 27/32 in. (25.0 cm); Base Diam: 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm); H: 1 9/16 in. (4.0 cm)

MediumColorless glass of good quality.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1966.95

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upside down over a plain male mold by a female plunger bearing the beehive pattern. Rope foot ring. Shear mark on patterned underside of base.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, MA, author, 1947, pp. 366, 373, pl. 136, top.

Keyes, Homer Eaton, "Museum Examples of Sandwich Glass," editorial, Antiques, vol. 34, July 1938, pp. 20-22 (Reprint 2, pp. 45-46), p. 22, fig. 9, right.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 355, pl. 149, no. 3.

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. 80, no. 156.

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, p. 276, fig. 238, top left.

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. 50, no. 101.

Welker, John and Elizabeth Welker, Pressed Glass in America; Encyclopedia of the First Hundred Years, 1825-1925, Ivyland, PA, Antique Acres Press, 1985, p. 239, fig. 8, no. 22, bottom row, left.

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, MA, Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 3, no. 1527 (pair).

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. 389, no. 545.