Bowl

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

Date1840-1850

DimensionsRim Diam: 5 21/32 in. (14.4 cm); H: 1 3/32 in. (2.8 cm)

MediumOpalescent glass of poor quality containing many stones.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1967.30

Not on View

DescriptionPressed, probably upside down, over a plain male mold by a female plunger bearing the pattern.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, MA, author, 1947, pp. 285-286, pl. 84, top left.

Rose, James H., The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, exh. cat., Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, 1954, p. 82, no. 177.

Spillman, Jane S., American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Museum of Glass Catalog Series, Corning, NY, Corning Museum of Glass, 1981, p. 98, no. 291.

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. 412, no. 609.