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Footed Bowl

Place of OriginUnited States, probably Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Date1845-1860

DimensionsH: 17.9 cm (7 1/16 in.); Rim Diam: 28.3 cm (11 1/8 in.); Base Diam: 14.9 cm (5 7/8 in.)

MediumDeep amethyst (red purple) lead glass; blown and molded

ClassificationGlass

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1987.40

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DescriptionBowl blown in a full-size mold patterned with eight pillar ribs and finished by tooling. Rim folded under and tooled with one indentation. Applied solid-waisted tooled standard. Applied broad, slightly sloping foot. Large, open, polished pontil mark.

Label TextPillar-molded glass was made at Apsley Pellatt’s and Green’s Falcon Glass Works in London and doubtless at other English factories in the 1830s. American glassmakers quickly adopted the style. This pillar-decorated glass was made by blowing an initial gather of molten glass that was allowed to cool to some hardness, then a second molten gather was applied. When blown into a ribbed mold, the gather was affected by the mold only on its exterior coating; the interior of the vessel remained smooth. The ribs could be left straight or swirled. The bold patterning was enhanced by the use of richly colored glass.Published ReferencesSpillman, Jane Shadel and Suzanne K. Frantz, Masterpieces of American Glass, Corning Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, Lilian Nassau, Ltd., New York, Crown, 1990, repr. p. 8, fig. 22, p. 92.

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.); p. 195, no. 183, colorpl. 183, p. 156.

Page, Jutta-Annette, The Art of Glass: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, 2006, p. 146, repr. (col.).

Exhibition HistoryDearborn, Mich., Henry Ford Museum, 1976.

Tallinn (USSR), Museum of Applied Arts; Leningrad, State Hermitage Museum; Moscow, Museum of the State Institute of Glass, Masterpieces of American Glass from the Collections of the Corning Museum of Glass and the Toledo Museum of Art, 1990, repr. p. 20, fig. 22, p. 18.