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Place of OriginProbably France

Date1880-1910

DimensionsRim Diam: 8 1/8 in. (20.6 cm); Base Diam: 4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm)

MediumLead glass; mold-pressed

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1969.153

Not on View

DescriptionColorless glass. Pressed, probably upside down, over a plain male mold by a female plunger bearing the pattern, or vice versa. It appears that no cap ring was used. Stuck up on a pontil rod and fire-polished. Pontil mark ground and polished.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pl. 150, no. 1 (for the same pattern, of which fragments [MIT 91 and G62] have been found at the Boston and Sandwich factory site).

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. 802, no. 1365.