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Vase

Manufacturer Mount Washington Glass Works American, about 1837-1870

Date1885-1890

DimensionsH: 37.9 cm (14 15/16 in.); Rim Diam: 8.5 cm (3 11/32 in.); Base Diam: 11.5 cm (4 1/2 in.); Max Diam: 13.9 cm (5 15/32 in.)

MediumBurmese glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Alexander K. Liddell and Mrs. Christina Dewar Newth

Object number

1954.9B

On View

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

Published ReferencesAvila, George C., The Pairpoint Glass Story, New Bedford, Mass., Reynolds-De Walt, 1968, pp. 25-30, pls. 28, 29 (Burmese).

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, p. 350, fig. 312, bottom row, no. 153 (catalogue photograph, Mount Washington Glass Company, New Bedford, Mass., 1885 or 1886 [Rakow Library, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, N.Y.]).

Revi, Albert Christian, Nineteenth-Century Glass: Its Genesis and Development, rev. ed., New York/Toronto, Nelson, 1967, pp. 36-45.

Rogers, Millard F., Jr., "American Glass: 1608-1940, " Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 4, no. 3, Summer 1961, pp. 51-70, repr. p. 67.

Barret, Richard Carter, Identification of American Art Glass, Manchester, Vt., Forward's Color Reproductions, 1964, pl. 12, bottom row, no. 2, p. 195, bottom, right.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1969, repr. p. 115.

Roger Dodsworth, in Klein, Dan and Ward Lloyd, eds., The History of Glass, London, Orbis, 1984, repr. p. 195.

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. 613, no. 990, colorpl. 990, p. 575.

Exhibition HistoryThe American Renaissance, 1876-1917, exh. cat., Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, 1979, repr. p. 220, no. 179

Detroit Institute of Arts, The Quest for Unity: American Art between World's Fairs, 1876-1893, exh. cat., Detroit, MI, 1983, repr. p. 189, no. 110