World Butter (Covered Butter Dish)

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World Butter (Covered Butter Dish)

Artist O'Hara Glass Co. Ltd. (1797-1891)

Date1885-1888

DimensionsOH: 9 1/2 inches;
H. (base) 4 3/4 inches;
Diam. (max.) 8 inches;
Diam. (lid) 5 3/4 inches.

MediumColorless non-lead glass, pressed

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Clyde and Norma Englehardt, Sylvania, Ohio

Object number

2016.207A-B

On View

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

DescriptionThe covered dish consists of two separate pieces, a body and lid.The design of a terrestrial globe in two hemispheres shows the outlines of the five continents and Antarctica, which is obscured by the swirled knop stem and wide foot that is attached to that area. The hemispherical body has a broad equatorial band on which the lid rests. The lid is surmounted by a head of Liberty/Columbia, wearing a Phrygian cap, which serves as the handle.

Label TextTechnically complex, this globe-shaped butter dish consists of several complicated pressed parts that are assembled and fused together. The form and decoration speak of a patriotic recognition of America’s economic and political role in the world in the late 19th century.Published ReferencesDrepperd, Carl L., The ABC's of Old Glass, Doubleday & Co; Fifth Edition edition (1949), pp. 85-86 (ill.).

Lindsey, Bessie M., American Historical Glass, 1967, p. 125, no. 113.

Innes, Lowell, Pittsburgh Glass, 1797-1891, a History and Guide for Collectors, 1976, p. 377.

"Recent Important Acquisitions," Journal of Glass Studies, 2003, p. 215, ill. p. 214, no. 24.

Sanford, Jo, Victorian Glass Novelties, Schiffer Books for Collectors, 2007, p. 136.

Comparative ReferencesSee also Trade catalog, O'Hara Glass Company Ltd., Pittsburgh, PA, ca. 1885, 37, n. p., ill. (lithograph).