Sauce Dish in Pioneer pattern

Object Name: 
Sauce Dish in Pioneer pattern

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Object Name: 
Sauce Dish in Pioneer pattern
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, PA, Philadelphia
Accession Number: 
50.4.441
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 6.5 cm; Rim Diam: 8.9 cm; Foot Diam: 5.8 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1876-1886
Primary Description: 
Sauce Dish in Pioneer pattern. Non-lead glass, colorless; pressed in one piece; circular bowl with short vertical sides and flat base with depressed small cone center inside, ringed knopped stem, thick, straight sides and ringed flat foot with smooth base; on side of bowl, frosted relief landscape with log cabin, running stag and buffalo, and, on bottom, rippled surface with two rows of wide-spaced tiny trefoils; broad rays on top of foot to stem.

More Info

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

Exhibitions (1)

1876: A Centennial Exhibition
Venue(s)
Smithsonian Institution

Publications (2)

American and European Pressed Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1981) illustrated, p. 280, #1103; BIB# 30457
A Supplement to 1876, a Centennial Exhibition (1976) p. 3; BIB# 86277