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Place of OriginEastern United States

DateProbably 1840-1860

DimensionsRim Diam: 8 in. (20.3 cm); Base Diam: 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm); H: 1 17/32 in. (3.9 cm)

MediumColorless glass with a yellowish tinge.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1968.45

Not on View

DescriptionPressed, probably upside down, over a plain male mold by a female plunger bearing the pattern. Rope foot ring. Bold stippling in center of base and within shields and arches. Shear mark barely visible inside foot ring on underside of base.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, MA, author, 1947, p. 307, pl. 94, bottom right.

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. 81, no. 169.

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. 106, no. 312.

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, MA, Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 3, no. 1608.

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. 378, no. 515.