Footed Bowl or Salt

Object Name: 
Footed Bowl or Salt

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Object Name: 
Footed Bowl or Salt
Place Made: 
probably France
possibly United States
Accession Number: 
51.3.317
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 5.5 cm; Rim Diam (max): 9 cm; Foot Diam (max): 4.5 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1845-1876
Primary Description: 
Footed Bowl or Salt. Opalescent milk-white lead glass; blown-three-mold. Hemispherical bowl with wide flaring rim and small circular foot; French baroque pattern: short ribs on top of foot; on sides, bead circlet, panels of beaded horseshoe-arches over two arcs above small pillar rib, and bead-band; swirled fluting on underside of rim; molded mark on underside of foot, "R & G A WRIGHT PHILADELPHIA"; rough pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern; Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin, George S. (b. 1874), Source
1950-07-31
Color: 
white
Technique: 
mold-blowing
Material: 
lead glass