Vase

Manufacturer Mount Washington Glass Company (American, 1876-1907, or later)

Date1890-1894

DimensionsH: 44.8 cm (17 5/8 in.); Rim Diam: 6.6 cm (2 19/32 in.); Max W (body): 12.0 cm (4 23/32 in.); Base Diam: 10.25 cm (4 1/32 in.)

MediumOpal lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Grace R. Miller

Object number

1968.70

Not on View

DescriptionBlown and finished by tooling. Applied funnel-shaped foot. Two applied solid handles tooled to leaf form, with an applied raspberry prunt at the lower end of each. Deep, concave, rough-ground pontil mark. Body enameled with two dancing figures, in eighteenth-century-style clothing, surrounded by a heavily gilded cartouche, with gilded scroll-like devices (like the right-hand side of the cartouche) on the reverse and three gilded scrolls on the upper surface of the base. Handles completely gilded.

Published ReferencesAvila, George C., The Pairpoint Glass Story, New Bedford, MA, Reynolds-De Walt, 1968, pp. 40-44, pls. 41-51 (albertine patented July 6, 1886; later named Crown Milano).

Revi, Albert Christian, Nineteenth-Century Glass: Its Genesis and Development, rev. ed., New York Toronto, Nelson, 1967, pp. 69-75.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, OH, 1969, repr. p. 117.

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. 601, no. 962, colorpl. 962, p. 574.