Footed Bowl

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Object Name: 
Footed Bowl
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, PA, Pittsburgh
Accession Number: 
55.4.98
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 6.2 cm; Rim Diam: 14.1 cm; Foot Diam: 7.4 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1815-1835
Primary Description: 
Footed Bowl. Transparent pale amethyst glass; pattern molded and expanded; flaring doubly-walled ring foot applied to shallow bowl with out folded rim and rough pontil mark; bowl patterned in twelve-rib mold and expanded in wide-spaced vertical ribbing.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern; Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin Antiques, Source
1955-11-12
Color: 
amethyst
Technique: 
mold-blowing
applied
Material: 
glass

Publications (4)

Pittsburgh Glass, 1797-1891 (1976) illustrated, p. 182 (fig. 160); BIB# 19272
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Doubleday edition) (1950) pl. 4, #2, p. 52; BIB# 25299
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Crown Publishers edition) (1950) pl. 4, #2, p. 52; BIB# 76944
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Bonanza Books edition) (1950) pl. 4, #2, p. 52; BIB# 96725