Dish

ManufacturerProbably Boston and Sandwich Glass Works (American, 1826-1888)

Date1835-1850

DimensionsRim L: 7 31/32 in. (20.2 cm); Rim W: 5 13/16 in. (14.7 cm); Base L: 4 7/8 in. (12.3 cm); Base W: 2 3/4 in. (7.0 cm); H: 1 3/4 in. (4.5 cm)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1967.67

Not on View

DescriptionPressed, probably upright, in a female mold bearing the pattern and the plain slightly rounded foot ring by a plain male plunger. Shear mark on bottom of plain interior.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, MA, author, 1947, pp. 310, pl. 98, top.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pp. 342-343, pl. 133, no. 2.

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. 206.

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, MA, Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 3, no. 1611 (pair).

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. 382, no. 525.