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Vase

Place of OriginProbably New England

Date1850-1865

DimensionsH: 9 21/32 in. (24.5 cm); Max Rim Diam: 4 3/32 in. (10.4 cm); Base Diam: 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm)

MediumTransparent blue lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.25A

Not on View

DescriptionBowl pressed upright in a female mold of three vertical sections bearing the Bigler pattern, in conjunction with a cylindrical mold that formed a plain rim that was reheated and tooled into seven flutes, by a plain male plunger. Joined by a wafer to a hexagonal standard on a circular foot. Standard and foot pressed upside down in a female mold of two vertical sections by a plain circular male plunger, with a cap ring that formed the outer underside of the foot and lower half of its outer edge. No pontil mark.

Published ReferencesRogers, Millard F., Jr., "The Story of American Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 9, no. 3, Autumn 1966, pp. 51-70; rev. and reprinted as a Toledo Museum handbook, repr. p. 61.

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. 447, no. 699.