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Place of OriginUnited States, probably New England

Date1835-1850

DimensionsH: 5.5 cm (2 3/16 in.); Rim L: 8.6 cm (3 3/8 in.); Rim W: 4.8 cm (1 7/8 in.)

MediumColorless lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1982.171

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DescriptionPressed upright in a female mold of four vertical sections bearing the pattern that formed the two sides and ends, including the sleigh runners and top of the rim, with a base plate bearing rays terminating in an open circle that formed the patterned base, by a plain male plunger.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Web, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, Mass., author, 1947, p. 265. pl. 74, no. 9, bottom right.

Rose, James H., The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, exh. cat., Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, N.Y., 1954, p. 149, nos. 758.

Neal, L. W. and D. B. Neal, Pressed Glass Salt Dishes of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, Philadelphia, authors, 1962, p. 425, SH 1.

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. 196, no. 770.

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, Mass., Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 3, no. 1561.

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. 352, no. 452.