Three-Footed Bowl or Fernery

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Three-Footed Bowl or Fernery

Artist Union Glass Works, Somerville, Massachusetts (American)

Dateabout 1909

DimensionsRim Diam: 7 19/32 in. (19.3 cm); H: 4 9/32 in. (10.85 cm)

MediumColorless glass; blank blown in a paste mold and finished by tooling. Three applied feet.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Virginia C. Law in memory of her husband, Edwin Tracy Law

Object number

1978.25

Not on View

DescriptionBowl cut with pattern of unknown name: three hob stars in pinwheels alternating with star-and-square-diamond motif. Underside of base cut with a twenty-four-pointed star consisting of three sets of seven equivalent rays separated by three shorter rays, each opposite one of the feet.

Published ReferencesBoggess, Bill and Louise, American Brilliant Cut Glass, New York, Crown, 1977, p. 83, no. 111c.

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. 706, no. 1172.