Butter Dish with Cover

Object Name: 
Butter Dish with Cover

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Object Name: 
Butter Dish with Cover
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, IN, Greentown
Accession Number: 
62.4.4
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 15.2 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1903
Primary Description: 
Transparent amber and opaque cream-colored non-lead glass; pressed. Dome-shaped cover with opalescent mushroom-like knob on top; sides have alternating panels of transparent amber glass with a meandering holly design and plain panels of opalescent glass. Separate bowl has well for butter and scalloped rim with holly design.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Pattern Name: 
Holly Amber
Category: 
Early American
Color: 
cream
amber
Technique: 
pressing
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (1)

Pressed Glass, 1825-1925
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1983-04 through 1983-10
St. Louis Art Museum 1983-12-01 through 1984-03-01
Suntory Museum of Art 1984-07-17 through 1984-09-02
Portland Museum of Art 1984-11-01 through 1985-12-31
Cincinnati Art Museum 1985-04-13 through 1985-05-26

Publications (10)

Five Thousand Years of Glass (Rev ed.) (2004) illustrated, p. 200, #253; BIB# 98761
Five Thousand Years of Glass (British Museum Press, Revised) (1999) illustrated, p. 200, #253; BIB# 65713
Five Thousand Years of Glass (Paperback) (1995) illustrated, p. 200, #253; BIB# 27096
Glass, 5000 Years (1991) illustrated, p. 200, #253; BIB# 33963
Five Thousand Years of Glass (British Museum Press) (1991) illustrated, p. 200, #253; BIB# 34319
Cinquemila anni di vetro (1991) illustrated, p. 200, #253; BIB# 35145
A Century of Pressed Glass (1983) p. 37; BIB# AI11576
Pressed Glass 1825-1925 (1983) #19; BIB# 30792
Glass Tableware, Bowls and Vases (1982) #229; BIB# 22048
American and European Pressed Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1981) illustrated, p. 327, #1268; BIB# 30457