Covered butter dish: lion
Classification:
Date:
1880-1910
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 1/4 x 6 x 3 1/2 in. ( 10.8 x 15.2 x 8.9 cm )
Description:
Opaque white pressed glass covered butter dish; slightly domed lid with recumbent lion on top; rectangular (coffin-shaped) dish with wavy edge; each side with central oval rondel surrounded by curved lines; fluted ends.
Credit Line:
Gift of Clarence G. Michalis
Object Number:
1953.745ab
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1910
eMuseum Object ID:
24283
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 dish 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
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1910
eMuseum Object ID:
24282
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Cup plate
Classification:
Date:
1830-1850
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. ( 1.3 x 8.9 cm )
Description:
Colorless pressed lead glass cup plate; circular form with scalloped edge; in well, three-masted side-wheel steamer (the Chancellor Livingston) with stippled rigging, and flag flying, on wavy sea, with inscription above and below ship; on interior rim, pattern of shields, clear hearts, scrolls, and stars, on stippled ground; rope table ring (Lee-Rose 625-A).
Object Number:
INV.14401b
Marks:
pressed: in well: "CHANCELLOR/LIVINGSTON"
Gallery Label:
The Chancellor Livingston was a paddle-wheel steamboat with auxiliary sails that operated between New York and Providence, R.I. until it was dismantled in 1834. The cup plate may commemorate the destruction of the ship.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
24281
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Miniature Smelling Bottle: Spiral Bottom
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
1780-1820
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 1/8 x 2 3/8 x 1 in. ( 7.9 x 6 x 2.5 cm )
Description:
Colorless blown lead glass smelling bottle; cylindrical wound body (seahorse shape) with embedded white threads (slightly twisted) and with applied trailed thread decoration (colorless) crimped into parallel notches, with crimped end; straight finish with fire-polished lip; pontil mark on side.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. F. MacDonald Sinclair (Jennie H. Sinclair)
Object Number:
1965.761j
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1820
eMuseum Object ID:
24280
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Oil lamp
Classification:
Date:
1850-1870
Medium:
Glass, brass
Dimensions:
Overall: 12 x 3 1/8 in. ( 30.5 x 7.9 cm )
Description:
Colorless, lead glass oil lamp with chimney; conical chimney and spherical font blown in mold with vertical ribs; font joined with wafer to trumpet-shaped, pressed glass base; brass collar, chimney holder, and wick-turning apparatus.
Credit Line:
Gift of Edmund B. Child
Object Number:
1933.17ab
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1870
eMuseum Object ID:
24279
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Bowl
Classification:
Date:
1830-1840
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 2 x 11 in. ( 5.1 x 27.9 cm )
Description:
Colorless pressed lead glass bowl with border consisting of alternating hearts and eight-petaled flowers on rim, wide diamond-patterned band beginning below border, and conventional pattern with a circle of eight hearts linked by half-circular loops with diamonds between them at center.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. F. MacDonald Sinclair (Jennie H. Sinclair)
Object Number:
1965.822
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1840
eMuseum Object ID:
24278
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Oil lamp
Classification:
Date:
1810-1840
Medium:
Glass, brass
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 x 5 in. ( 17.8 x 12.7 cm )
Description:
Colorless glass oil lamp with blown font and cylindrical tooled stem; font cut with eight ovals around opening and eight above stem; stem has single knop and is attached to circular base; brass cuff around opening in font.
Object Number:
INV.3819a
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1840
eMuseum Object ID:
24277
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Oil lamp
Classification:
Date:
1835-1840
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 1/2 x 2 3/8 x 2 3/8 in. ( 19 x 6 x 6 cm )
Description:
Colorless lead glass oil lamp with blown font and pressed base; bulb-shaped font with vertical rim joined by wafer to square base with five steps.
Object Number:
INV.4011
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1840
eMuseum Object ID:
24276
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Covered dish: chicken
Classification:
Date:
1880-1910
Medium:
Glass, paint
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 3/4 x 5 1/2 x 4 in. ( 12.1 x 14 x 10.2 cm )
Description:
Opaque white pressed glass covered dish in the form of a sitting hen (cover) on a basket (dish); hen's comb, eyes, and wattle are painted with red enamel; cover rests inside fluted dish with rayed underside.
Credit Line:
Gift of Clarence G. Michalis
Object Number:
1953.751cd
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1910
eMuseum Object ID:
24275
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Cup plate
Classification:
Date:
1830-1850
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 1/2 x 3 3/8 in. ( 1.3 x 8.6 cm )
Description:
Colorless pressed lead glass cup plate; circular form with scalloped edge (one large scallop alternating with two small scallops); square flower at center of well, with stippled diamond-and-scroll motif dividing well into quadrants, with leaf on each; on interior rim, pattern of flowers enclosed in ovals and leaves, on stippled ground (Lee-Rose 228-A).
Credit Line:
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Coates in loving memory of Howard Masten and Anne Louise Canoune
Object Number:
1971.109k
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
24274
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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