Pyrex Pie Plate

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Object Name: 
Pyrex Pie Plate
Place Made: 
Accession Number: 
96.4.170
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 3.6 cm, Diam: 22.3 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1915-1919
Credit Line: 
Gift of Jerry E. Wright
Primary Description: 
Colorless with yellowish cast, non-lead borosilicate glass; pressed. Circular dish with walls tapering in towards base, thick curved rim, exterior of rim has a minute extruded edge, interior wall angles sharply down from rim, wide flattened base molded with inset circular foot in very slight relief; overall mold and chill marks; molded in low relief circle at center of base (reading through interior): interlocked CG monogram/PYREX/interlocked CG monogram; molded in low relief on underside of rim and reading through glass: 202.
Department: 
Provenance: 
Jerry E. Wright (American, b. 1932), Source
1996-06
Category: 
Color: 
Technique: 
Inscription: 
202
Trademark
Stamped underside of rim
Pyrex
Trademark
Stamped center of base
Pyrex: A Century of Pyrex (2015-11) illustrated, p. 12-13, (fig. 1);
A Century of Pyrex (2015) illustrated, p. 8;
Design Chronicles: significant mass-produced designs of the 20th century (2005) illustrated, p. 42, fig. 02-18; BIB# 89747
The Corning Museum of Glass: A Decade of Glass Collecting 1990-1999 (2000) illustrated, pp. 76-77, #129; BIB# 65446
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1996 (1997) illustrated, p. 41; BIB# AI95179
Recent Important Acquisitions, 39 (1997) illustrated, pp. 182-183, #47; BIB# AI5243