Vase
Classification:
Date:
1850-1875
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 x 4 3/8 in. ( 22.9 x 11.1 cm )
Description:
Yellow-green pressed lead glass vase; elongated conical shape with rim folded outward; six panels around sides, each containing a raised circle above a loop; two hexagonal band knops and hollow hexagonal foot.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair
Object Number:
1942.570
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1875
eMuseum Object ID:
7011
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Sphere filled with colored thread
Classification:
Date:
1825-1900
Medium:
Glass, fiber
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 1/2 in. ( 11.4 cm )
Description:
Colorless blown glass sphere with open pontil mark; sphere filled with multi-colored thread.
Credit Line:
Gift of Edward C. Titus
Object Number:
1940.281
Gallery Label:
According to the accession records, this is probably a witch ball.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
6949
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Boot
Classification:
Date:
1880-1910
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 1/8 x 3 3/4 x 2 1/4 in. ( 10.5 x 9.5 x 5.7 cm )
Description:
Colorless, frosted pressed lead glass boot with heel; ribbed all over and with tassel in front near rim.
Credit Line:
Gift of Clarence G. Michalis
Object Number:
1953.570
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1910
eMuseum Object ID:
6274
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Paperweight
Classification:
Date:
1845-1850
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 5/8 x 3 in. ( 4.1 x 7.6 cm )
Description:
Lead glass paperweight; circular, with flat top and faceted sides; sulphide profile portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette on a translucent lime green ground.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. F. MacDonald Sinclair
Object Number:
1965.138
Marks:
handwritten in ink: on paper label affixed to base: "73"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
6265
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Paperweight
Classification:
Date:
1845-1850
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 1/2 x 2 in. ( 3.8 x 5.1 cm )
Description:
Lead glass paperweight of flattened spherical shape with tightly knit apple green and white swirls radiating from a central blue, green, and red cane.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. F. MacDonald Sinclair
Object Number:
1965.318
Gallery Label:
The swirl design was a specialty of the Clichy factory.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
6209
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Figured flask
Classification:
Date:
1824-1836
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 6 3/4 x 4 3/8 x 2 1/4 in. ( 17.1 x 11.1 x 5.7 cm )
Description:
Colorless lead glass figured flask blown in a two-part mold (McKearin GII-41) with hand-tooled cylindrical neck, oval body with American eagle with rays above head perched on oval cartouche on obverse and tree on reverse, and mold seam and blowpipe mark on base.
Credit Line:
Gift of Clarence G. Michalis
Object Number:
1953.392
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1836
eMuseum Object ID:
6185
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Small dish
Classification:
Date:
1840-1880
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 x 4 in. ( 2.5 x 10.2 cm )
Description:
Colorless pressed lead glass dish; circular form with scalloped edge formed by points; geometric pattern radiating from center of well to edge of dish, with alternating clear and stippled wedges.
Object Number:
INV.13393
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1880
eMuseum Object ID:
6146
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Cream jug
Classification:
Date:
1835-1865
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 x 5 x 4 in. ( 12.7 x 12.7 x 10.2 cm )
Description:
Blue blown glass cream or milk jug with "lily-pad" decoration; spherical body with tall cylindrical neck with flared and tooled rim pulled out to form spout, second gather of glass tooled up into four peaks, third gather of glass over second gather tooled up into four peaks, applied handle with curled end, and applied disc foot with pincered edges and blow pipe mark on underside.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. J. Insley Blair
Object Number:
1952.169
Gallery Label:
Most similar jugs are aquamarine or brown and made from bottle or window glass. This rare blue example probably came from a bottle factory. The style of applied decoration, which is called “lily pad” by collectors, was employed only in glasshouses in New Jersey, New York, and New England, although it had some predecessors in continental Europe. Because these objects were made after-hours by the glassblowers, never as production pieces, each of them is unique and therefore highly collectible. It is seldom possible to attribute them to particular glassblowers or even to specific glasshouses. The use of a third gather of glass is extremely rare.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1865
eMuseum Object ID:
5878
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Cream jug
Classification:
Date:
1835-1855
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 3/4 x 4 x 2 3/4 in. ( 9.5 x 10.2 x 7 cm )
Description:
Dark green blown non-lead glass cream jug; compressed spherical body below a tall neck with flared rim pulled out to form spout; applied disc foot with pontil mark; body decorated with heavy gadrooning formed with second gather of glass; trailed thread of glass around neck; applied handle curled at end.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. J. Insley Blair
Object Number:
1952.197
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1855
eMuseum Object ID:
5827
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Paperweight with medal: Edison Pioneers 1847-1925
Classification:
Highlight:
Not promoted
Date:
ca. 1925
Medium:
Glass, metal, felt
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 3/8 x 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. ( 3.5 x 6.4 x 6.4 cm )
Description:
Deep, barely translucent aquamarine glass paperweight; square, with circular medallion with profile portrait of Thomas Edison below inscription, "THE EDISON PIONEERS," mounted on top; hollow base covered with felt.
Object Number:
INV.3505
Marks:
in relief: on face of medallion: "THE EDISON PIONEERS / "78" / FEB. 11TH / 1925 / Thomas A. Edison [in script] / 1847-1925"
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1925
eMuseum Object ID:
5822
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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