Tray

Place of OriginProbably New England

Date1835-1850

DimensionsRim L: 7 3/4 in. (19.65 cm); Rim W: 5 3/16 in. (13.2 cm); Base L: 4 1/4 in. (10.6 cm); Base W: 2 27/32 in. (7.2 cm); H: 1 3/32 in. (2.8 cm)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1967.65

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upside down over a male mold, plain except for the serrations on the side edges and the stylized anthemion, or palmette, motifs on the ends, by a female plunger bearing the rest of the pattern. Plain flat foot ring. Shear mark on plain interior surface.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, MA, author, 1947, p. 309, pl. 95, upper left.

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. 85, no. 204.

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. 51, no. 107.

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, MA, Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 3, no. 1537.

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. 571.