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Object Name: 
Vase
Department
American
Place Made: 
United States
Date: 
about 1840-1860
Color
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amethyst
Technique
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pressing
Material
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glass
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 26 cm; Rim Diam: 11.5 cm
Accession Number: 
50.4.231 A
Location: 
Not on Display
Description
Vase. Lead glass, deep amethyst; pressed in two pieces; deep hexagonal ogee bowl in Three-Printie-Block pattern with plain circular rim, hexagonal blade-knop shank, attached by merese to hollow standard composed of a cavetto molding between a wide and a narrow hexagonal block at top of hexagonal flaring pedestal base.
Provenance
McKearin, George S., Source
1950-07-31

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Publications

American and European Pressed Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1981) p. 217, #833; BIB# 30457

Objects In Set

2 Vases
Date:about 1840-1860
Accession Number:50.4.231
Vase
Date:about 1840-1860
Accession Number:50.4.231 B
 

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