Dish and Cover

ManufacturerProbably Eagle Glass and Manufacturing Company (American, 1894-1925)

Date1898-1900

DimensionsH (with cover): 9.8 cm (3 7/8 in.); H (without cover): 4.5 cm (1 25/32 in.); Rim L (dish): 15.6 cm (6 5/32 in.); Rim W: 11.5 cm (4 1/2 in.); Base L: 11.5 cm (4 1/2 in.); Base W: 5.5 cm (2 1/8 in.).

MediumOpal non-lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Margaret Hill Wittmann

Object number

1984.78

On View

Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion (2444 Monroe Street), Glass Pavilion Gallery, 3

DescriptionDish: pressed upright in a two-piece female mold of oval form with basket-weave decoration on the sides and a ribbon on either side bearing an inscription, with a base plate that formed the bottom and the inscription on it, by a plain male plunger. Cover: pressed upside down in a two-piece female mold of oval form bearing an eagle with outstretched wings over three inscribed eggs in strawlike bedding, by a plain, contoured male plunger that formed the interior.

Published ReferencesFerson, Regis F. and Mary Fleming Ferson, Yesterday's Milk Glass Today, Pittsburgh, authors, 1981, pp. 113-115, no. 567.

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. 515, no. 867.