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Pair of Vases

ManufacturerPossibly New England Glass Company (American, 1818-1888)

ManufacturerPossibly Sweeney Glass Works (American, 1818-1888)

Date1860-1875

DimensionsH: 23.5 cm (9 1/4 in.); Rim Diam: 11.8 cm (4 21/32 in.); D base 11.2 cm (4 13/32 in.)

MediumTransparent light blue lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.61A-B

Not on View

DescriptionEntire piece pressed upright in a female mold of two vertical sections bearing the Ashburton pattern that formed the bowl by a plain male plunger that formed the hollow interior, in conjunction with a second plunger working from below that formed the hollow cylinder at the lower end of the standard from which the foot was tooled after being reheated. Rim reheated and flared outward by tooling. Deep, broad polished pontil mark.

Published ReferencesWatkins, Lura Woodside, Cambridge Glass, 1818-1888: The Story of the New England Glass Company, Boston, Marshall Jones, 1930; reprint, New York, Bramball House, 1953, pl. 42, top left.

Lee, Ruth Webb, Early American Pressed Glass, Wellesley Hills, MA, author, 1960, pl. 3, top left.

Revi, Albert C., American Pressed Glass and Figure Bottles, New York and Toronto, Nelson, 1964, p. 153, center left.

Watkins, Lura Woodside, "Pressed Glass of the New England Glass Company: An Early Catalogue at the Corning Museum," Journal of Glass Studies, vol. 22, 1970, pp. 149-164, p. 158, no. 912.

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, p. 293, fig. 247, no. 912.

Innes, Lowell, Pittsburgh Glass, 1791-1891: A History and Guide for Collectors, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1976, p. 343, fig. 365, left.

Wilson, Kenneth M., "New Discoveries in American Glass, 1760-1930," Antiques, vol. 144, December 1993, pp. 808-817, repr. p. 809, pl. IV; p. 813.

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. 454, no. 719, colorpl. 719, p. 259.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Early American Pressed Glass, exhibition, January 28-March 6, 1966 (no catalog).