Bowl

Place of OriginMidwest

Date1835-1845

DimensionsRim Diam: 9 7/32 in. (23.4 cm); H: 1 7/16 in. (3.7 cm)

MediumColorless glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1969.195

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upside down over a plain male mold by a female plunger bearing the pattern, including the fifteen bosses in the centers of the scrolls that form, in effect, the foot ring.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 345-346, pl. 145.

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. 109, no. 379.

Innes, Lowell, Pittsburgh Glass, 1791-1891: A History and Guide for Collectors, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1976, pp. 267-268, fig. 274, no. 1.

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. 66, no. 155.

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. 408, no. 598.