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Celery Vase

Celery Vase

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Object Name: 
Celery Vase
Department
American
Category
Early American
Place Made: 
United States, probably Baltimore, MD; United States, possibly Philidelphia, PA; United States, possibly Pittsburgh areas, PA; United States, possibly NY; United States, possibly New England area
Date: 
about 1815-1840
Dimensions: 
H: 20.4 cm, D(rim): 2.5 cm, (foot): 10.3 cm
Accession Number: 
55.4.53
Location: 
On Display
Description
Clear glass with slightly bluish-grey cast; wear marks at base; free blown, pattern molded and engraved; flat foot with rough pontil mark, stem consisting of an annular knop between spool-like parts, straight sided bowl with flaring rim; lower body has a gadrooned band molded upon a superimposed gather and patterned in a twenty rib mold; on the upper part of bowl, a frieze with two farmhouses between which are a small tower, domestic fowls in flight, flowers and leaf sprays, underneath a festoon band.
Provenance
McKearin Antiques, Source to
A Guide to Dating Glass Tableware: 1800 to 1940 (2000) illustrated, p. 187, fig. 48;
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Doubleday edition) (1950) pl. 49, #1, pp. 218-219; BIB# 25299

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