Molasses Can or Syrup Jug

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Molasses Can or Syrup Jug

Place of OriginProbably Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Date1850-1865

DimensionsH: 7 3/4 in. (19.6 cm); Max Rim W: 3 5/16 in. (8.5 cm); Base Diam: 3 15/16 in. (10.0 cm)

MediumGlass; mold-blown and tooled.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of an anonymous donor

Object number

1986.111

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DescriptionBody and handle: amethyst glass; foot: colorless glass. Blown in a mold patterned with eight pillar ribs and finished by tooling. Two rings applied near top of neck. Applied solid handle tooled into leaflike form at lower end, the end turned up. Applied foot. Large, rough pontil mark.

Published ReferencesKnittle, Rhea Mansfield, Early American Glass, New York, Century, 1927, pl. 55, left (colorless jug of similar form with a hollow handle).

Innes, Lowell, Pittsburgh Glass, 1791-1891: A History and Guide for Collectors, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1976, p. 200, no. 192 (jug of this form of opaque white overlaid with colorless glass but with only one neck ring).

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. 544, no.899.