Figured flask
Classification:
Date:
1835-1855
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 6 7/8 x 5 x 2 in. ( 17.5 x 12.7 x 5.1 cm )
Description:
Cobalt blue non-lead glass figured flask blown in a two-part mold (McKearin GIX-10) with hand-tooled flared lip, pear-shaped body with scroll patterning and two eight-pointed stars, keyed base, and pontil mark.
Credit Line:
Gift of Clarence G. Michalis
Object Number:
1953.352
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1855
eMuseum Object ID:
30694
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Oil lamps (pair)
Classification:
Date:
1847-1860
Medium:
Glass, metal
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 3/4 x 4 1/2 x 4 in. ( 24.8 x 11.4 x 10.2 cm )
Description:
Pair of colorless pressed lead glass oil lamp; domed hexagonal font with molded lyres or harps on the side panels joined by a wafer to hexagonal baluster stem on flat hexagonal plinth; threaded brass collar with tin double wick burner that is not original.
Object Number:
INV.3982ab
Gallery Label:
The dome of the font was formed with the Magoun patent method. Developed by Joseph Magoun of the New England Works in 1847, eliminated mold marks by using a hinged, three-part mold to form the body of the font and a one-piece cylindrical mold to form a cylinder that was then tooled to form the dome.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1860
eMuseum Object ID:
30648
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Cream jug
Classification:
Date:
1865-1881
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 6 x 4 1/2 x 3 3/8 in. ( 15.2 x 11.4 x 8.6 cm )
Description:
Opaque white pressed glass footed creamer; Mitre Diamond pattern on bottom half of body; fire-polished rim; plain conical foot.
Credit Line:
Gift of Clarence G. Michalis
Object Number:
1953.766
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1881
eMuseum Object ID:
30448
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Perfume bottle
Classification:
Date:
1840-1860
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 3/4 x 2 1/4 x 2 in. ( 9.5 x 5.7 x 5.1 cm )
Description:
Green blown multi-part mold lead glass perfume bottle with hand-tooled neck and lip; hexagonal center and base divided by flange and tapered section; stopper with hexagonal top.
Object Number:
INV.3950ab
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1860
eMuseum Object ID:
30433
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Champagne glass
Classification:
Date:
1880-1920
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 6 3/4 x 2 1/2 in. ( 17.1 x 6.4 cm )
Description:
Colorless blown lead glass champagne glass; tall round funnel-shaped bowl joined by thin cylindrical stem to pedestal foot; bowl acid-etched with bird on branch and border at rim of scrolls, dots, and flowers between two horizontal lines.
Credit Line:
Gift of Thomas Barber
Object Number:
1956.179b3
Gallery Label:
According to a note found with matching decanter, INV.12609, the decanter, and therefore probably the glassware, belonged to William Bayard.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1920
eMuseum Object ID:
30410
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Flask: blue with white line pattern
Classification:
Date:
1850-1900
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 1/4 x 4 x 1 1/2 in. ( 18.4 x 10.2 x 3.8 cm )
Description:
Cobalt blue blown lead glass flask with short cylindrical neck with flared lip, compressed ovoid body decorated with trailed and marvered threads of opaque white glass and then twisted, and rough pontil mark.
Object Number:
INV.13290
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1900
eMuseum Object ID:
30329
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Smelling bottle
Classification:
Date:
1850-1925
Medium:
Glass, brass
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 x 2 x 2 1/2 in. ( 10.2 x 5.1 x 6.4 cm )
Description:
Translucent red non-lead glass smelling bottle (or pungent) in the shape of a sword, with glass blade and brass caps at each end of hilt, with chain suspended from hooks and ending in ring; brass caps covered in decorative flowers and scrolls, with knob at top of top cap.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. F. MacDonald Sinclair (Jennie H. Sinclair)
Object Number:
1965.767j
Gallery Label:
The main purpose of smelling bottles, or pungents, was to mask unpleasant odors, and thus they usually held smelling salts. They were first stoppered by corks and eventually by screw caps. The capacity of these bottles ranges from fractions of a dram to a little over an ounce.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1925
eMuseum Object ID:
30177
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Candlestick
Classification:
Date:
1840-1855
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 1/4 x 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. ( 23.5 x 8.9 x 8.9 cm )
Description:
Opaque white pressed lead glass candlestick; hexagonal socket with petal-form rim on hexagonal stem joined with a wafer to columnar standard with eleven flutes on two-stepped square plinth; hollow interior with pontil mark.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. F. MacDonald Sinclair (Jennie H. Sinclair)
Object Number:
1965.882a
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1855
eMuseum Object ID:
29562
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Vase
Classification:
Date:
1875-1950
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 1/2 x 3 3/4 in. ( 19 x 9.5 cm )
Description:
Light amethyst, lead glass; pressed. Vase; elongated conical shape with fluted rim and six panels around sides, each containing a raised circle above a loop; hollow base with hexagonal knop and foot.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. J. Insley Blair
Object Number:
1952.229
Gallery Label:
This vase may be a twentieth-century reproduction of a mid-nineteenth-century pattern. (Note: Vases such as this one reproduced in "American and European Pressed Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass" (p. 230) are said to date from after 1875 because they have been pressed in one piece.)
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1950
eMuseum Object ID:
29552
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Bottle with screw cap
Classification:
Date:
1750-1800
Medium:
Glass, pewter
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 x 4 1/2 in. ( 17.8 x 11.4 cm )
Description:
Blue glass 13-sided bottle blown in a dip mold; bottle has pewter screw cap, rounded shoulders, cylindrical body with 13 lobed sides, slight push-up and pontil mark.
Object Number:
INV.591ab
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1800
eMuseum Object ID:
29549
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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