butter dish
Object NameButter Dish with Cover and Stand
Made FromLead Glass
Dateabout 1800
Place MadeIreland
TechniqueBlown, cut
SizeCovered Bowl H: 14.75 cm; Rim Diam: 13.5 cm; Stand Rim Diam: 18 cm
Accession Number50.2.46
Curatorial Area(s)
Exhibitions
Title Unknown (Museum of Fine Arts, Philadelphia)
On ViewEuropean Gallery
Physical DescriptionColorless lead glass; blown and cut. (a) Straight-sided bowl with shallow, scalloped, galleried rim; smooth base; sides cut in broad panels with trifoliate-leaf band just above middle. (b) Domed cover with leaf circlet (same leaf as that of bowl's band) on rim, panels on dome, and panels on stubby spire finial. (c) Shallow straight-sided stand or plate with wide, flaring rim, facet cutting on sides and, on rim, leaf circlet like that of cover; polished pontil mark.Provenance
Source
Steuben Glass, Inc.
(American, founded 1903) - 1950-10-01
