Vase in "Wild Rose" Pattern

Object Name: 
Vase in "Wild Rose" Pattern

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Object Name: 
Vase in "Wild Rose" Pattern
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, MA, Cambridge
Accession Number: 
50.4.327
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 21.25 cm; Body Diam (max): 10 cm; Lip Diam: 1.6 cm; Base Diam: 5.5 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1883-1888
Primary Description: 
Vase. Peach Blow or Wild Rose homogeneous lead glass, white shading to rose-pink; free-blown; sides curving from small flat base to rounding sloping shoulder, long slender neck with plain lip; ground and polished pontil mark.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Pattern Name: 
Wild Rose
Provenance: 
McKearin, George S. (b. 1874), Source
1950-07-31
Category: 
Early American
Color: 
pink
white
red
Technique: 
glassblowing
peach blow glass
Material: 
lead 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 (8)

Mt. Washington and Pairpoint Glass (2005) illustrated, p. 248, Fig. 10-28; BIB# 88066
Y'oroppa amerika no ant'iku garasu : shiru, kau, kataru, kansh'osura (2002) illustrated, p. 86; BIB# 74885
Story of Glass Coloring Book (1981) illustrated, p. 45 far left; BIB# 67749
The Woman's Day Dictionary of American Glass (1961-08) illustrated, p. 31, top right; BIB# 98018
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Doubleday edition) (1950) illustrated, #2, pl. 99; BIB# 25299
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Bonanza Books edition) (1950) illustrated, #2, pl. 99; BIB# 96725
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Crown Publishers edition) (1950) illustrated, #2, pl. 99; BIB# 76944
American Glass (1948) (1948) illustrated, #1, pl. 215; BIB# 25297