Covered Sweetmeat Dish

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Covered Sweetmeat Dish

Place of OriginUnited States, possibly New England

Date1835-1845

DimensionsH (with cover): 13.4 cm (5 9/32 in.); H (without cover): 9.1 cm (3 9/16 in.); Rim Diam: 18.0 cm (7 3/32 in.); Base Diam: 11.5 cm (4 17/32 in.)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1968.38A-B

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DescriptionBowl: pressed upside down over a plain male mold by a female plunger of three vertical sections bearing the pattern for all of the exterior, with a base plate bearing a 17-petaled rosette, each point terminating between a double V-shaped motif, all within a broad flat basal ring. Cover: pressed upside down in a female mold of three vertical sections, with a base plate that formed the interior of the finial, by a male plunger bearing the pattern.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Web, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, MA, author, 1947, p. 406, pl. 155, center, top row (cover of a different pattern).

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pp. 337-338, pl. 134, no. 1.

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. 73, nos. 99, 101 (also with mismatched covers).

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. 72, no. 173 (cover of a different pattern).

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, MA, Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 2, no. 952.

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. 371, no. 501.