Silver Streak Pyrex Iron Insert

Object Name: 
Silver Streak Pyrex Iron Insert

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Object Name: 
Silver Streak Pyrex Iron Insert
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States
Accession Number: 
65.4.3
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 11.7 cm, W: 21.6 cm, D: 9.6 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1946
Credit Line: 
Gift of Otto W. Hilbert
Primary Description: 
Colorless/blue non-lead glass; pressed. Triangular shape with handle above body; colorless lined with dark blue glass; "PYREX" on base at wide end; two holes drilled in to surface under handle; third hole at wide and with electrical cord still in place.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Hilbert, Otto, Source
Color: 
Colorless, blue
colorless
Technique: 
pressing

Exhibitions (1)

Curiosities of Glassmaking
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2007-04-01 through 2007-10-21
West Bridge Show

Publications (3)

Pyrex: A Century of Pyrex (2015-11) illustrated, p. 14, (fig. 7);
Cooking with Glass: How Pyrex Transformed Every Kitchen into a Home-Ec Lab (2015-06-10) illustrated, p. 5 (top left); BIB# AI100652
American and European Pressed Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1981) illustrated, p. 350, #1370; BIB# 30457