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Dish

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

1870-1910

GUSN

GUSN-50685

Description

A footed colorless crackle-glass dish, of oval form with indented sides forming a curvilinear bowl form. It has a tooled turned-under lip and a low font. It has a crackled-ice effect texture to the exterior of the bowl portion and it has a polished pontil mark on the base of the font.

Details

Descriptive Terms

dishes (vessels)
glassblowing
crackling
glass (material)
tooling
Victorian
Glass
Tooled
Blown
Crackled
Victorian
DISH

Associated Building

Original to Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm (Newbury, Mass.),

Maker

Possibly Boston & Sandwich Glass Co. (Maker)

Location of Origin

Sandwich, MA, USA

Dimensions

3.25 (H), 6.625 (diameter) (inches)

Credit Line

Bequest of Amelia W. Little

Accession Number

1986.139

Places

Massachusetts (United States)

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