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ManufacturerPossibly New England Glass Company (American, 1818-1888)

Date1847-1855

DimensionsH: 12 3/8 in. (31.4 cm); Base W: 4 3/8 in. (11.1 cm); Diam (font): 4 3/4 in. (12.1 cm)

MediumAlabaster glass, translucent white font and blue standard and base

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1969.155

Not on View

DescriptionFont pressed upright in a female mold of three vertical sections, in conjunction with a one-piece cylindrical mold from which the domed top was formed by reheating and tooling by the Magoun patent method, by a plain male plunger. Joined by a wafer of blue glass to a columnar standard with twelve flutes and a convex-concave circular base above a double plinth with a band of seventeen beads on each side, plus a bead at each corner. Standard and base pressed, apparently upside down, in a one-piece female mold by a plain male plunger that formed the hollow interior of the standard and base and the underside of the base. Large, very rough pontil mark around bottom of hollow standard. Brass collar machined and threaded.

Published ReferencesWilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, p. 296, fig. 250, second from left.

Spillman, Jane S., American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Museum of Glass Catalog Series, Corning, N.Y., Corning Museum of Glass, 1981, p. 229, no. 897.

Wilson, Kenneth M., "New Discoveries in American Glass, 1760-1930," Antiques, vol. 144, December 1993, pp. 808-817, repr. p. 816, pl. XIV, p. 817.

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. 425, no. 642, colorpl. 642, p.256.