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Object Name: 
Pane
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, PA, Pittsburgh
Accession Number: 
87.4.6
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 17.5 cm, W: 12.8 cm, Th: .8 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1834-1845
Primary Description: 
Colorless lead glass; pressed. Flat rectangle with raised pattern on one side; design of feathery scroll-like motifs, emanating from central quatrefoil; near lower edge "Curlings/& Robertson".

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Stradlings, Former Collection
1987
Category: 
Early American
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
pressing

Exhibitions (1)

The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1954-06-21 through 1954-09-15

Publications (6)

Recent Important Acquisitions, 30 (1988) illustrated, p. 109, #19; BIB# AI20606
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1987 (1988) p. 5; BIB# AI96382
The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass: Sessions I & II (1986-12) illustrated, #402; BIB# 9497
Pittsburgh Glass, 1797-1891 (1976) illustrated, p. 285 (fig. 306-2); BIB# 19272
The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period 1825-1850 (1954) p. 112, #401; BIB# 27822
Lacy Glass Window Panes: Their Use, Process, and Origin (1947-02) illustrated