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.
dishes (vessels)
glassblowing
crackling
glass (material)
tooling
Victorian
Glass
Tooled
Blown
Crackled
Victorian
DISH
Original to Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm (Newbury, Mass.),
Possibly Boston & Sandwich Glass Co. (Maker)
Sandwich, MA, USA
3.25 (H), 6.625 (diameter) (inches)
Bequest of Amelia W. Little
1986.139
Massachusetts (United States)
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