Dish

Place of OriginUnited States, probably New England

Date1835-1850

DimensionsH: 3.7 cm (1 15/32 in.); Rim L: 25.35 cm (10 in.); Rim W: 17.9 cm (7 1/16 in.); Base L: 12.3 cm (4 13/16 in.); Base W: 8.6 cm (3 3/8 in.)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1967.64

Not on View

DescriptionPressed, probably upside down, over a male mold, plain except for the pattern that formed the curved decoration and bosses at each end of the tray and the tapered finely scalloped rim edge, by a female plunger bearing the balance of the pattern. Plain flat narrow ring.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Web, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, Mass., author, 1947, p. 309, pl. 95, bottom.

Keyes, Homer Eaton, "Sandwich Lacy Glass," Antiques, vol. 24, August 1933, pp. 58-61 (Reprint 2, pp. 41-45), p. 61, fig. 19.

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. 84, no. 200.

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. 51, no. 103.

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, MA, Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 2, no. 945.

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. 397, no. 569.