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Vase

ManufacturerProbably Boston and Sandwich Glass Works (American, 1826-1888)

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

Date1850-1865

DimensionsH: 30.2 cm (11 7/8 in.); Rim W: 11.6 cm (4 9/16 in.); Base W: 13.6 cm (5 11/32 in.)

MediumGreenish yellow lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1967.122A

Not on View

DescriptionBowl pressed upright in a female mold of three vertical sections extending from the base of the solid hexagonal knop to the edge of the rim and bearing the block-and-printie pattern in six vertical panels by a plain male plunger. Joined by a wafer to a hexagonal standard and base. Standard and base pressed upside down in a female mold of two vertical sections by a plain tapered cylindrical male plunger, probably with a cap ring that formed the underside and outer angled edge of the foot. Rim reheated and tooled into six uneven flutes. No pontil mark. Underside of base ground and polished.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Web, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, Mass., author, 1947, p. 481, pl. 198, right.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 388, pl. 201, no. 41.

Spillman, Jane S., American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Museum of Glass Catalog Series, Corning, N.Y., Corning Museum of Glass, 1981, p. 218, no. 842.

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. 460, no. 735.