Ribbed-Bellflower Spill-Holder

Object Name: 
Ribbed-Bellflower Spill-Holder

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Object Name: 
Ribbed-Bellflower Spill-Holder
Place Made: 
United States
Accession Number: 
50.4.419
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 14 cm; Rim Diam: 8.5 cm; Foot Diam: 7.75 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1845-1870
Primary Description: 
Ribbed-Bellflower Spill-Holder. Lead glass, colorless; pressed in one piece; deep straight-sided bowl, six upward-flaring wide-spaced scallops on rim, short-stemmed flaring circular foot with base rayed to small smooth center.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Pattern Name: 
Bellflower
Provenance: 
McKearin, George S. (b. 1874), Source
1950-07-31
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
pressing
Material: 
lead glass

Publications (4)

Un guide pour la datation de la verrerie de table des annees 1800 a 1940 (2001) illustrated, Fig. 24, p. 197; BIB# 96483
Studies in Material Culture Research (2000) illustrated, p. 167, fig. 24; BIB# 71763
Glass Tableware, Bowls and Vases (1982) pl. 319; BIB# 22048
American and European Pressed Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1981) illustrated, p. 263, #1048; BIB# 30457