Dish

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Object Name: 
Dish
Place Made: 
United States, New England
Accession Number: 
68.4.425
Dimensions: 
H: 5.8 cm, L: 30.8 cm, W: 23.2 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1830-1840
Primary Description: 
Colorless, lead glass; pressed. Rectangular shape; flaring sides and cut corners; scalloped edge; sides with pairs of "peacock eyes", crossed and diamond design; ends with diamond design; rectangular base with band of S-scrolls surrounding a rectangle of strawberry diamonds.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Esterly, Louise S., Source
Hester, Mary, Former Collection
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
pressing

Exhibitions (1)

Masterpieces of American Glass
Venue(s)
Museum of Applied Arts 1990-07-27 through 1990-09-02
State Hermitage Museum 1990-09-15 through 1990-10-21
Museum of the State Institute of Glass 1990-11-02 through 1991-01-04

Publications (4)

Glassworks (AAF) (1992-06) p. 68;
Masterpieces of American Glass (1990) illustrated, pp. 31, 93, pl. 48; BIB# 33046
Shedevry amerikanskogo stekla: iz kollektsij Muzeia Stekla v Korninge i Muzeia Iskusstva v Tolido (1990) illustrated, pp. 59-60, #45; BIB# 34475
American and European Pressed Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1981) illustrated, p. 89, #244; BIB# 30457