dish

Object NameDish

Made FromLead Glass

Date1830-1850

TechniquePressed

SizeOverall H: 5.25 cm; Rim W: 14 cm, D: 18.75 cm

Accession Number50.4.197

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern

Place Made

United States, probably PA, Pittsburgh

Physical DescriptionDish. Lead glass, dull peacock-blue or -green; pressed; oval form, sides spreading from beaded table-ring to gaffered rim (broad round scallops); "wrinkled" unpatterened inner surface; outer, patterned on background of coarse stippling in concentric rings; at top, band of short vertical ribs above row of beads; on sides, large diamond filled with sixteen strawberry diamonds and rising between circle of small strawberry diamonds, small star at lower right and left of circles; on ends, large diamond filled with sixteen strawberry diamonds and rising between crossed peacock feathers (plain ringed-eye and diamonds); on base, diamond-waffles, strawberry diamond in each.
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