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Footed Bowl

Place of OriginProbably New England

Date1830-1835

DimensionsH: 9.5 cm (3 3/4 in.); Rim Diam: 14.95 cm (5 7/8 in.); Base Diam: 8.5 cm (3 11/32 in.)

MediumSemiopaque light blue mottled lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1968.56

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upright in a female mold of three vertical sections bearing the pattern that formed the exterior of the bowl, and top of the base, with a base plate that formed the edge of the base, its ribbed hemispherical hollow center, and the ribbed slightly domed section between it and the flat scalloped rim of the base, with a cap ring that formed the gently rounded rim, by a plain male plunger that formed the interior.

Published ReferencesBarlow, Raymond E. and Joan E. Kaiser, The Glass Industry in Sandwich, ed. Lloyd C. Nickerson, 3 vols., Windham, NH, authors, vol. 4, 1983, repr. p. 120, no. 1049.

Wilson, Kenneth M., "New Discoveries in American Glass, 1760-1930," Antiques, vol. 144, December 1993, pp. 808-817, repr. p. 810, pl. VI; p. 814.

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. 361, no. 476, colorpl. 476, p. 252.