Dish

Place of OriginProbably New England

Date1835-1850

DimensionsRim L: 8 19/32 in. (21.8 cm); Rim W: 6 11/16 in. (17.0 cm); Base L: 5 1/8 in. (13.0 cm); Base W: 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm); H: 1 9/32 in. (3.2 cm)

MediumColorless glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1969.180

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upside down over a plain male mold by a female plunger bearing the pattern. Plain, slightly rounded foot ring. Long shear mark on patterned underside of base.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, MA, author, 1947, pp. 309-310, pl. 96, top left.

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. 73, no. 176.

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, MA, Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 2, no. 1205.

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. 409, no. 601.