Mustard Pot, Cover, and Saucedish

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

Date1835-1850

DimensionsH (together): 2 31/32 in. (7.5 cm); H (pot with cover): 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm); H (pot): 2 in. (5.1 cm); Rim Diam (pot): 2 25/32 in. (7.0 cm); Rim Diam (dish): 4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1968.20A-C

Not on View

DescriptionPot: pressed upright in a three-piece female mold that included the handle, half of which was pressed in each of two sections of the mold, with a base plate that formed the exterior bearing a recessed rayed pattern in the center encircled by a ring of beads, by a plain male plunger. The piece rests on a plain foot ring at the outer edge of the base. Shear mark on plain interior. Cover: pressed upside down in a two-piece plain female mold that formed the cover, knop, and spoon opening by a male plunger bearing the simplified peacock-eye pattern on the underside of the cover. Saucedish: pressed upside down over a plain male mold by a female plunger bearing the pattern. Plain, triangular cross-section foot ring. Shear mark on patterned underside of base.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, MA, author, 1947, pl. 114, top.

Rose, James H., The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, exh. cat., Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, 1954, pp. 79-80, nos. 152, 154.

Keefe, John W., "American Lacy and Pressed Glass in the Toledo Museum of Art," Antiques, vol. 100, July 1971, pp. 104-109 (Reprint 2, pp. 151-156), p. 105, repr. fig. 3, center, front.

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. 85, no. 225 (covered pot).

Barlow, Raymond E. and Joan E. Kaiser, The Glass Industry in Sandwich, ed. Lloyd C. Nickerson, 3 vols., Windham, NH, authors, vol. 3, 1987, p. 197, no. 3278.

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, MA, Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 1, no. 238, 245 (opalescent).

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, MA, Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 2, 957.

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. 403, no. 583.