3 Cruets

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Object Name: 
3 Cruets
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States
Accession Number: 
86.4.35
Dimensions: 
(A) H: 16.4 cm, D: 8.7 cm; (B): 15.5 cm, D: 8.9 cm; (C) H: 12.7 cm, D: 8.3 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1970-1975
Credit Line: 
Gift in memory of Charles H. and Alice Wendt Voorhees, by exchange
Primary Description: 
Opaque white non-lead glass; pressed. Pear-shaped; (A) cruet pressed from the bottom with collar of plain glass around open base; diamond pattern on body; (B) similar cruet, pressed from the base and with open base tooled into a circular foot but still open at center; (C) similar cruet, but with plain base having a dimple in the middle where excess glass (as in B) was cut away.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Innes, Lowell (d. 1986), Former Collection
Schwind Antiques, Source
1986-05-09
Color: 
opaque white
Technique: 
pressing

Publications (2)

Two important glass auctions (1986-05-03) Lot #452D; BIB# 13023
Pittsburgh Glass, 1797-1891 (1976) illustrated, p. 67 (fig. 24); BIB# 19272

Objects in Set (3)

Cruet
Date:1970-1975
Accession Number:86.4.35 A
Cruet
Date:1970-1975
Accession Number:86.4.35 B
 
Cruet
Date:1970-1975
Accession Number:86.4.35 C