Toy Pitcher and Washbowl

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Toy Pitcher and Washbowl

Place of OriginProbably New England

Date1840-1860

DimensionsH (pitcher): 2 13/32 in. (6.1 cm); Rim Diam (bowl): 3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm); H (bowl): 2 9/16 in. (6.5 cm)

MediumCobalt-blue lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1972.40A-B

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DescriptionPitcher: pressed upright in a female mold of two vertical sections bearing a pattern of panels, opening at the center of the handle and the spout, with a base plate that formed the underside of the foot, with a cap ring that formed the interior of the spout and the top of the rim, by a plain male plunger. No fire-polishing. No pontil mark. Bowl: pressed, probably upside down, over a plain male mold, with a cap ring that formed the rim, by a female plunger bearing a pattern of panels. No fire-polishing. No pontil mark.

Label TextToys imitating glass objects used by adults and made by blowing and tooling, mold blowing, or pressing, were common throughout the 19th century.Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, MA, author, 1947, p. 274, pl. 80, top right (variant).

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. 121, nos. 479, 480.

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. 147, no. 479.

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. 463, no. 742.