Bowl

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Object Name: 
Bowl
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
possibly United States, OH, Kent
Accession Number: 
55.4.100
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 4.7-6.4 cm; Rim Diam: 19.7 cm; Base Diam: 9 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1824-1834
Primary Description: 
Bowl. Transparent brilliant light amber-yellow very bubbly glass; pattern molded and expanded; short vertical bottom with wide spreading sides and overfolded rim, concave base with rough pontil mark; double-patterned in twenty-rib mold and expanded in broken-swirl ribbing (second insertion only slightly recognizable).

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern; Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin Antiques, Source
1955-11-12
Color: 
light yellow
amber
Technique: 
mold-blowing
Material: 
glass

Publications (3)

Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Doubleday edition) (1950) pl. 10, #1, p. 124; BIB# 25299
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Bonanza Books edition) (1950) pl. 10, #1, p. 124; BIB# 96725
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Crown Publishers edition) (1950) pl. 10, #1, p. 124; BIB# 76944