Dish

Place of OriginUnited States, probably New England

Date1840-1850

DimensionsRim L: 10 1/16 in. (25.5 cm); Rim W: 7 17/32 in. (19.1 cm); Base L: 7 1/4 in. (18.5 cm); Base W: 4 13/16 in. (12.3 cm); H: 1 13/16 in. (4.6 cm)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1967.41

Not on View

DescriptionPressed, probably upright, in a female mold bearing the pattern by a plain male plunger. The piece rests on sixteen bosses, one at the end of each scroll. Shear mark on plain interior surface.

Published ReferencesCrane, Priscilla C., "The Boston and Sandwich Glass Company," Antiques, vol. 7, April 1925, pp. 183-190 (Reprint 2, pp. 29-36), p. 185, fig. 7, right.

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. 89, no. 243.

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, MA, Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 2, no. 813.

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. 405, no. 590.