Footed Bowl

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Object Name: 
Footed Bowl
Place Made: 
United States, probably Midwestern
Accession Number: 
50.4.432
Dimensions: 
H: 7.5 cm, D(bowl): 24 cm, (foot): 10 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1840-1870
Primary Description: 
Footed Bowl. Fiery opalescent glass, probably lead glass; pressed in one piece; shallow circular bowl, sides with six contiguous loops, flaring in very slight curve to nearly upright round-scallop rim, depressed center on inside of bowl above very short hexagonal stem spreading onto circular foot with kick-up.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin, George S. (b. 1874), Source
1950-07-31
Color: 
opaque white glass
bluish green
Technique: 
opalescence
pressing
Material: 
lead glass

Publications (2)

American and European Pressed Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1981) illustrated, p. 245, #960; BIB# 30457
Pittsburgh Glass, 1797-1891 (1976) illustrated, p. 250 (fig. 254); BIB# 19272