Covered butter dish: turtle
Classification:
Date:
1880-1910
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 3/4 x 7 1/2 x 3 1/4 in. ( 12.1 x 19 x 8.3 cm )
Description:
Opaque white pressed glass covered butter dish; slightly domed top with turtle finial; top with shell decoration and beading; rectangular-shaped dish with canted corners; foliate handles and beaded edges; sides of dish with oval rondels, flowers, and fluted corners.
Credit Line:
Gift of Clarence G. Michalis
Object Number:
1953.746ab
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1910
eMuseum Object ID:
24326
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Dessert dishes (11)
Classification:
Date:
1880-1910
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
each: 2 3/8 x 4 in. ( 6 x 10.2 cm )
Description:
Colorless glass; pressed. Sherbet glasses with beading above egg and dart border on rim, leaf and flower motif surrounding bowl, and ribbing on base of bowl and foot.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Weber Hill Arkenburgh
Object Number:
1948.346a-k
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1910
eMuseum Object ID:
24325
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Dessert dish: sherbert
Classification:
Date:
1880-1910
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 3/8 x 4 in. ( 6 x 10.2 cm )
Description:
Colorless glass; pressed. Sherbet glass with beading above egg and dart border on rim, leaf and flower motif surrounding bowl, and ribbing on base of bowl and foot.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Weber Hill Arkenburgh
Object Number:
1948.346k
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1910
eMuseum Object ID:
24324
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Dessert dish: sherbert
Classification:
Date:
1880-1910
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 3/8 x 4 in. ( 6 x 10.2 cm )
Description:
Colorless glass; pressed. Sherbet glass beading above egg and dart border on rim, leaf and flower motif surrounding bowl, and ribbing on base of bowl and foot.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Weber Hill Arkenburgh
Object Number:
1948.346j
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1910
eMuseum Object ID:
24323
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Dessert dish: sherbert
Classification:
Date:
1880-1910
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 3/8 x 4 in. ( 6 x 10.2 cm )
Description:
Colorless glass; pressed. Sherbert glass with beading above egg and dart border on rim, leaf and flower motif surrounding bowl, and ribbing on base of bowl and foot.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Weber Hill Arkenburgh
Object Number:
1948.346h
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1910
eMuseum Object ID:
24322
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Dessert dish: sherbert
Classification:
Date:
1880-1910
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 3/8 x 4 in. ( 6 x 10.2 cm )
Description:
Colorless pressed glass footed sherbert glass with beading above egg and dart border on rim, leaf and flower motif surrounding bowl, and ribbing on base of bowl and foot.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Weber Hill Arkenburgh
Object Number:
1948.346f
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1910
eMuseum Object ID:
24320
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Covered dish: bird on nest
Classification:
Date:
1880-1910
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 6 1/2 x 6 1/2 x 5 in. ( 16.5 x 16.5 x 12.7 cm )
Description:
Opaque white pressed glass covered dish in the form of a bird sitting on a nest; bird has one inset red glass eye; cover includes bird and part of dome-shaped nest; base in the form of a nest made out of branches and flowers; three stump feet.
Credit Line:
Gift of Clarence G. Michalis
Object Number:
1953.748ab
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1910
eMuseum Object ID:
24318
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Dessert dish: sherbert
Classification:
Date:
1880-1910
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 3/8 x 4 in. ( 6 x 10.2 cm )
Description:
Colorless glass; pressed. Sherbet glass with beading above egg and dart border on rim, leaf and flower motif surrounding bowl, and ribbing on base of bowl and foot.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Weber Hill Arkenburgh
Object Number:
1948.346e
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1910
eMuseum Object ID:
24319
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Bowl: log cabin center
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1840
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 1/8 x 6 1/4 in. ( 2.9 x 15.9 cm )
Description:
Colorless pressed lead glass bowl with log cabin and cider barrel at center and four vignettes surrounding rim, including two of a man plowing alternating with one of a ship and one of a glass factory.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Robert C. Taylor
Object Number:
1945.401
Gallery Label:
The glass factory pictured on the bowl is apparently that of the New England Glass Company (see "American and European Pressed Glass," p. 105). The log cabin and cider barrel were emblems of William Henry Harrison's 1840 presidential campaign.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1840
eMuseum Object ID:
24317
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Wavy Base Duck
Classification:
Date:
1885-1905
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 1/2 x 8 x 6 in. ( 14 x 20.3 x 15.2 cm )
Description:
Opaque white pressed glass butter dish in the form of a duck (cover) floating on water (dish); duck has inset green glass eyes; dish has flange with wave-like lines suggesting water. Underside of base has lines radiating from center.
Credit Line:
Gift of Clarence G. Michalis
Object Number:
1953.741ab
Gallery Label:
Similar duck butter dishes have been attributed to Challinor, Taylor & Company and United States Glass Company of Tarentum, Pennsylvania.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1905
eMuseum Object ID:
24316
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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