Dish

Place of OriginUnited States, probably New England

Date1835-1850

DimensionsH: 3.2 cm (1 1/4 in.); Rim L: 20.7 cm (8 5/32 in.); Rim W: 13.7 cm (5 3/8 in.); Base L: 10.4 cm (4 1/8 in.); Base W: 7.2 cm (2 27/32 in.)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1967.63

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upside down over a male mold, plain except for the serrations on the side edges and stylized palmettes on the ends, by a female plunger bearing the balance of the pattern. Plain flat foot ring. Shear mark barely evident on patterned underside at end of foot ring.

Published ReferencesSpillman, 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. 51, no. 106 (smaller).

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, MA, Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 2, no. 946 (same size).

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. 398, no. 570.