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Knob

Manufacturer Boston and Sandwich Glass Works (American, 1826-1888)

Place of OriginUnited States, Massachusetts, Boston

Date1829-1840

Dimensions1 3/16 × 2 11/16 × 2 9/16 in. (3 × 6.8 × 6.5 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Dorothy-Lee Jones

Object number

1970.41

Not on View

DescriptionColorless; Screw shank and body pressed upright, by a bench press, in a female mold of two vertical sections with a base plate by a male plunger bearing a rayed pattern in the center recess and also alternating fins and oval bosses on the face of the knob.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 335, pl. 130, nos. 3, 3B

Helen McKearin, "The Case of the Pressed Glass Knobs," Antiques, vol. 60, August 1951, p. 119, fig. 2

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. 64, no. 24

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, pp. 258-259, fig. 216

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. 36, no. 44

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. 293, no. 326.