Footed Bowl and Cover

Place of OriginUnited States, Midwest region

Date1835-1850

DimensionsH (with cover): 12.5 cm (4 29/32 in.); H (without cover): 8.6 cm (3 3/8 in.); Rim Diam (bowl): 16.0 cm (6 9/32 in.); Base Diam (bowl): 8.0 cm (3 5/32 in.)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1967.46

Not on View

DescriptionBowl: pressed upright in a female mold of three vertical sections bearing the peacock-feather-eye pattern, with a base plate that formed the ribbed cavity of the foot, by a plain male plunger, with a cap ring that formed the band of grapes around the rim, part of the plain surface of the rim, and the edge of the rim. Cover: pressed upside down in a female mold of three vertical sections bearing the peacock-feather-eye pattern, with a base plate that formed the top of the hollow petal knop, by a plain male plunger.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Web, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, MA, author, 1947, p. 398, pl. 150, top center (without cover)

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. 74, no. 108

Keefe, John W., "A Comparison of the Products of the New England and the Boston and Sandwich Glass Companies," pt. 1, The Glass Club Bulletin of the National Early American Glass Club, nos. 96-97, December 1970-March 1971, pp. 3-12; pt. 2, The Glass Club Bulletin of the National Early American Glass Club, no. 98, August 1971, pp. 3-7, p. 8, repr. fig. 9

The Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, OH, 1969, repr. p. 98

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. 246

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. 8-22, third row, left

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, MA, Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 1, no. 251

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. 402, no. 582.