Bowl

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Object Name: 
Bowl
Place Made: 
United States, probably OH, Kent
Accession Number: 
55.4.96
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 8.9-10.5 cm; Rim Diam: 21.7; Base Diam: 10 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1823-1830
Primary Description: 
Bowl. Transparent light brilliant amber-yellow bubbly glass with few impurities; pattern molded and expanded; deep bowl with sides slightly spreading to overfolded rim, concave base with very rough pontil mark, double-patterned in twenty-rib mold and greatly expanded into broken-swirl design.

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Department: 
Early Modern; Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin Antiques, Source
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. 14, #2, pp. 148-149; BIB# 25299
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Crown Publishers edition) (1950) pl. 14, #2, pp. 148-149; BIB# 76944
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Bonanza Books edition) (1950) pl. 14, #2, pp. 148-149; BIB# 96725