Vase

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Object Name: 
Vase
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, probably MA, Boston
Accession Number: 
55.4.121
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 15 cm; Rim Diam: 9.8 cm; Base Diam: 6.4 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1820-1850
Primary Description: 
Vase. Transparent brilliant cobalt-blue glass; pattern molded and expanded; straight sided body slightly tapering to concave base with rough pontil mark, sloping and rounded shoulder, wide neck slightly tapering downwards and with wide outfolded rim; nine sunken panels on body with ribs extending to base.

More Info

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

Publications (4)

Woman's day dictionary of Sandwich glass (1963) illustrated, p. 27 (row 1, far left); BIB# 98017
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Doubleday edition) (1950) pl. 47, #1, pp. 214-215; BIB# 25299
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Crown Publishers edition) (1950) pl. 47, #1, pp. 214-215; BIB# 76944
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Bonanza Books edition) (1950) pl. 47, #1, pp. 214-215; BIB# 96725