Celery Holder

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Object Name: 
Celery Holder
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, WV, Wheeling
Accession Number: 
50.4.331
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 16.75 cm; Rim Diam: 9.25 cm; Base Diam: 8.75 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1886-1891
Primary Description: 
Celery Holder. Non-lead glass, deep cranberry and opalescent; pressed; cylindrical cranberry glass body studded with opalescent hobs, and with vertically crimped or fluted rim, two circles of hobs on base with ground and polished pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin, George S. (b. 1874), Source
1950-07-31
Category: 
Early American
Color: 
red
white
Technique: 
opalescence
pressing
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (1)

The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1954-06-21 through 1954-09-15

Publications (2)

Glass Tableware, Bowls and Vases (1982) pl. 347; BIB# 22048
American and European Pressed Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1981) illustrated, p. 312, #1217 A; BIB# 30457