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Goblet

ManufacturerProbably Union Glass Works (American, 1854-1924)

Date1860-1870

DimensionsH: 6 1/4 in. (15.9 cm); Rim Diam: 3 9/16 in. (9.05 cm); Base Diam: 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Granville Price

Object number

1990.60

Not on View

DescriptionEntire piece pressed upright in a female mold of three vertical sections bearing the so-called bull's-eye-with-fleur-de-lis pattern, with a base plate that formed the underside of the foot, with a cap ring that formed the rim and the plain section above the pattern, by a plain male plunger. The moldmarks extend vertically from the upper edge of the foot to the cap ring. No pontil mark.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Early American Pressed Glass, Wellesley Hills, MA, author, 1960, pp. 161-163 (bull's-eye-with-fleur-de-lis, or princess feather, pattern), form no. 7, pl. 50, row 2, no. 1.

Watkins, Lura Woodside, "The Union Glass Company," Antiques, vol. 30, November 1936, pp. 222-225.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 404, pl. 206, no. 5 (pitcher).

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, pp. 311-312.

Spillman, Jane S., American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Museum of Glass Catalog Series, Corning, NY, Corning Museum of Glass, 1981, p. 261, nos. 1038-1041.

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. 470, no. 759.