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Vase

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

ManufacturerProbably New England Glass Company (American, 1818-1888)

Date1850-1865

DimensionsH: 10 5/32 in. (25.8 cm); Rim Diam: 5 11/32 in. (13.6 cm); Base W: 4 21/32 in. (11.8 cm)

MediumGreenish-yellow (so-called Vaseline) glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1968.32A-B

Not on View

DescriptionMade in the same manner as 1968.43A but pressed in different molds with minor variations: (1) the eight panels on the bowl terminate in rounded ends about 1.2 cm (1/2 in.) from the base, and (2) the cylindrical stem is shorter and larger in diameter. Pontil mark on underside of edge of base. Rim and upper part of bowl highly fire-polished.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 391, pl. 201, no. 40.

Spillman, Jane Shadel, Glass Tableware, Bowls, and Vases, New York, Knopf, 1982, no. 336, right.

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. 457, no. 725, colorpl. 725, p. 260.