Covered Casket with Tray

Object Name: 
Covered Casket with Tray

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Object Name: 
Covered Casket with Tray
Place Made: 
United States
Accession Number: 
68.4.437
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 13.3 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1830-1840
Primary Description: 
Colorless, lead glass; pressed. (a) Rectangular shape; galleried rim, scalloped and pointed; stippled; four sides with Gothic arches with hearts above; rectangular base with sunburst; (b) double-domed rectangular shape; pattern on inside; stippled; sides with Gothic arches; pyramidal knob; (c) rectangular shape; scalloped and pointed edge; sides with sixteen hearts; center with geometric design.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Pattern Name: 
Gothic Arch
Provenance: 
Esterly, Louise S., Former Collection
1940-05-16
to
1968
Renner, Mable, Former Collection
1940-05-16
Category: 
Early American
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
pressing
Material: 
lead glass

Publications (2)

American and European Pressed Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1981) illustrated, p. 68, #158; BIB# 30457
Pittsburgh Glass, 1797-1891 (1976) illustrated, p. 271 (fig. 278); BIB# 19272