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Dish and Cover

Place of OriginNew England
Date1835-1850
DimensionsH (dish): 4.7 cm (1 27/32 in.); Rim L (dish): 26.6 cm (10 15/32 in.); Rim W (dish): 22.1 cm (8 11/16 in.); H (with cover): 12.6 cm (4 31/32 in.);
MediumColorless glass.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth
Object number
1968.33
Not on View
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  • Glass
Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Web, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, MA, author, 1947, pp. 374-375, pl. 151, top left, and possibly pl. 137.

Keyes, "Sandwich Glass," p. 21, fig. 3 (whether grape or stippled border is not evident).

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 362, pl. 160, no. 1, 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, p. 76, no. 120, pl. 28, top.

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. 94, no. 266.

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, MA, Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 2, no. 983.

Barlow, Raymond E. and Joan E. Kaiser, The Glass Industry in Sandwich, ed. Lloyd C. Nickerson, 3 vols., Windham, NH, authors, vol. 1, 1993, repr. p. 113, no. 1029.

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. 373, no. 503.

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