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ManufacturerProbably Boston and Sandwich Glass Works (American, 1826-1888)

Date1827-1830

DimensionsH: 5.2 cm (2 1/32 in.); Rim L: 7.7 cm (3 1/32 in.); Rim W: 5.4 cm (2 1/8 in.); Base L: 6.6 cm (2 19/32 in.); Base W: 4.5 cm (1 3/4 in.)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1982.175

Not on View

DescriptionPressed, probably by a bench press, probably upright, in a female mold of four vertical sections, opening at the corners, that formed the exterior of the body from the bottom edge to the top of the straight edge of the rim, with a base plate that formed the four rounded feet, the broad border from which they project, and the series of ribs of triangular cross section to ribs that extend longitudinally across the recessed base, by a male plunger bearing a pattern of similar ribs on its ends and sides that extends through its face with an alternating pattern of scallops and points to form the top of the rim.

Published ReferencesRose, James H., The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, exh. cat., Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, N.Y., 1954, pp. 151-152, no. 799, pl. XXIII (possibly same pattern, but base neither illustrated nor described).

Neal, L. W. and D. B. Neal, Pressed Glass Salt Dishes of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, Philadelphia, authors, 1962, p. 116, HL 1.

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, Mass., Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 1, pp. 165, 167, no. 636.

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. 294, no. 328.