Covered Bowl Pressed in "Rochelle" Pattern

Object Name: 
Covered Bowl Pressed in "Rochelle" Pattern

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Object Name: 
Covered Bowl Pressed in "Rochelle" Pattern
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, PA, Pittsburgh
Accession Number: 
68.4.625
Dimensions: 
(a) H(with cover): 14.4 cm, (without): 8.2 cm, D(rim): 16 cm (b) H: 6.5 cm, D: 12.1 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1840-1875
Primary Description: 
(a) Opalescent blue glass; pressed. Footed, hemispherical shape; stippled; rim with grape clusters; sides with princess feather medallions and peacock eyes; vertical ribbing on inside of domed foot; (b) transparent blue glass; pressed. Domed shape; open crown knob; stippled; princess feather medallions on underside of dome; grape clusters around rim.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Pattern Name: 
Rochelle
Provenance: 
Esterly, Louise S., Source
Wood, Richard, Former Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Former Collection
Category: 
Early American
Color: 
blue
Technique: 
pressing
opalescence
Material: 
glass

Publications (3)

Tableware in Transition: Pressed Flint Glass (1988) pp. 33-39, ill. p. 37; BIB# AI20495
American and European Pressed Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1981) illustrated, p. 94, #264; BIB# 30457
Recent Important Acquisitions, 11 (1969) illustrated, pp. 120-121, #66; BIB# AI97754