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Vase

Place of OriginProbably New England

Date1845-1860

Dimensions9 13/16 × 5 1/16 in. (25 × 12.9 cm)
Base Diameter: 4 5/16 in. (11 cm)

MediumGreenish yellow (so-called Vaseline) lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1982.164

Not on View

DescriptionBowl pressed upright, probably in a one-piece mold that formed the 12 panels, by a plain conical male plunger that formed the interior and probably the pointed top edges of the panels. Joined by a wafer to a hexagonal stem and a round base with seven loop panels. Stem and base pressed upside down in a female mold of two vertical sections bearing the pattern by a plain male plunger that formed the hollow interior of the base and slightly rounded foot. Upper section of vase and rim reheated and flared outward by tooling. Rough, solid pontil mark at the top of hollow base.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 391, pl. 201, no. 38.

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. 433, no. 662, colorpl. 662, p. 257.