Window Pane

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Object Name: 
Window Pane
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, PA, Pittsburgh
Accession Number: 
50.4.208
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 0.5 cm, W: 12.6 cm, D: 17.6 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1835-1845
Primary Description: 
Window Pane. Colorless glass, mold-pressed. Rectangular, with sunburst at each corner; rays radiating to a large diamond in the center with palmettes around an oval. Slightly, irregular (not flat). Greenish-black inclusion/impurity near the center.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin, George S. (b. 1874), Source
1950-07-31
Rose, James (1899-1975), Former Collection
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
pressing
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (1)

Picture This: Windows on the American Home
Venue(s)
National Building Museum 2003-03-10 through 2003-08
Minnesota Historical Society 2003-10-13 through 2004-11

Publications (4)

The Origins of Pressed Glass Decoration (1983-09) pp. 86-91, ill. p. 88; BIB# AI11593
American and European Pressed Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1981) illustrated, p. 52, #108; BIB# 30457
Pittsburgh Glass, 1797-1891 (1976) illustrated, p. 284 (fig. 303-1); BIB# 19272
Lacy Glass Window Panes: Their Use, Process, and Origin (1947-02) illustrated