Covered box
Manufacturer
Libbey Glass Co.
(American, 1888-)
CultureAmerican
Dateca. 1860
MediumPressed glass | Gilt
DimensionsOverall: 3 5/8 x 3 3/4 in. (9.2 x 9.5 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Florence L. Smith
Object number52.18.94
Not on view
DescriptionCovered box. BOX: Opal pressed glass box. Cylinder of fourteen concave panels with a narrow fourteen sided projecting collar-like shelf just below the straight rim. COVER: Matching dome shape. Fourteen concave panels with a hexagonal flat topped finial. Decorated with a worn enameled bird and on the finial top, in gilt, : "Kate".Published ReferencesL.W. Watkins, CAMBRIDGE GLASS, pg. 104, pl. 38B & 45. PRESSED GLASS OF THE NEW ENGLAND GLASS CO., (Corning Journal of Glass Studies XII, 1970), pg. 163, pl. 25, reproduced catalogue pages showing this box.
Boston & Sandwich Glass Co.
