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Manufacturer Providence Flint Glass Works (American, 1831-1833)

Date1831-1833

DimensionsH: 5.7 cm (2 1/4 in.); Rim L: 8.0 cm (3 1/8 in.); Rim W: 6.4 cm (2 1/2 in.)

MediumColorless glass with moonstone tint.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1982.172

Not on View

DescriptionBody pressed, probably upright, by a male plunger that formed the interior and upper edge of the rim in a female mold of four vertical sections bearing the decoration, in conjunction with a male plug bearing the pattern on the underside of the base. Sheer mark on interior of base.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Web, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, Mass., author, 1947, p. 244, bottom, pl. 72, bottom right.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 369, pl. 167, no. 4.

Rose, James H., The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, exh. cat., Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, N.Y., 1954, p. 151, no. 798.

Neal, L. W. and D. B. Neal, Pressed Glass Salt Dishes of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, Philadelphia, authors, 1962, p. 305, PE 1.

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, p. 287, figs. 243A, B.

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. 191, nos. 742, 743, colorpl. 9, no. 742.

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, Mass., Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 3, nos. 1349, 1350.

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. 347, no. 440.