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Relish Dish

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Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

1850-1874

GUSN

GUSN-58305

Description

Cranberry-colored glass dish with an attenuated mushroom body with a neck and a faceted thumbprint pattern. One of a set of four.

Details

Descriptive Terms

pickle casters
cutting (dividing)
flashing (glassworking)
glass (material)
Dish, Serving
Dish, Relish
Dish, Relish

Associated Building

Original to Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House (Gloucester, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

4 1/4 (H), 2 1/4 (diameter) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Constance McCann Betts, Helena Woolworth Guest and Frasier W. McCann

Accession Number

1942.3904.1

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