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

Date1835-1845

DimensionsRim Diam: 6 in. (15.2 cm); Base Diam: 3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm); H: 3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm)

MediumColorless glass with a light lavender tint.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1967.27

Not on View

DescriptionBowl pressed upside down over a plain male mold with a cap ring that formed the forty-eight-scallop rim, the decoration on the underside of the rim, and the short vertical shoulder that extends downward to the upper edge of the decoration on the bowl, by a female plunger. Joined directly to the base. Base pressed upside down in a female mold of two vertical sections by a plain male plunger that formed the underside of the perimeter of the base.

Published ReferencesInnes, Lowell, Pittsburgh Glass, 1791-1891: A History and Guide for Collectors, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1976, pp. 233-234, fig. 231, nos. 1, 3 (same bowl, different bases).

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, MA, Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 2, no. 1254 (same as Innes, Lowell, Pittsburgh Glass, 1791-1891: A History and Guide for Collectors, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1976, fig. 231, no. 3).

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. 413, no. 612.