Sander

Place of OriginNew England

Date1835-1850

DimensionsH: 7.1 cm (2 13/16 in.); Rim Diam: 6.9 cm (2 11/16 in.); Base Diam: 7.0 cm (2 3/4 in.)

MediumOpalescent lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1982.165A-B

Not on View

DescriptionPressed in a female mold of three vertical sections bearing the pattern from the bottom of the rope base to the top of the stippling just beneath the rim with a base plate bearing a pattern of seven concentric rings around a solid circle, the whole surrounded by a flat circle, that formed the foot, by a plain male plunger that formed the interior and the plain circular interior lip for the pewter top, the curved shoulder, and the plain top of the rim. Fitted with a perforated pewter closure to sift the sand.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Web, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, Mass., author, 1947, pp. 452, 459, pl. 179, top center.

Spillman, Jane S., American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Museum of Glass Catalog Series, Corning, N.Y., Corning Museum of Glass, 1981, p. 54, no. 116.

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, Mass., Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 1, nos. 165 (yellow green).

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. 421, no. 635.