Dish

Expand

IIIFView PDF

Dish

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

Date1828-1830

DimensionsRim Diam: 7 27/32 in. (19.9 cm); Base Diam: 4 3/4 in. (12.0 cm); H: 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm)

MediumThick (0.8 cm [5/16 in.]) colorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1966.98

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). The shoulder slopes slightly downward to a subtle S-shaped cavetto that joins the flat bottom. No shear mark evident.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, Mass., author, 1947, pl. 106, top left (slight variant).

Spillman, Jane S., American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Museum of Glass Catalog Series, Corning, N.Y., Corning Museum of Glass, 1981, p. 77, no. 189 (same as Lee).

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, Mass., Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 2, no. 675.

Nelson, Kirk J., "Early Glass Pressing Technology in Sandwich," Acorn: Journal of the Sandwich Glass Museum, vol. 1, 1990, pp. 38-50, p. 43, figs. 9, 10.

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. 308, no. 354.