Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2012.

Windowpane

Manufacturer J. & C. Ritchie

CultureAmerican

Date1834-36

MediumPressed glass

Dimensions7 × 5 in. (17.8 × 12.7 cm)

Markings"J.&.C. RITCHIE," impressed in center

Credit LineMuseum purchase

Object number86.72

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 116-3, Case 19

DescriptionLacy window pane of pressed colorless glass. Rectangular shape. With a design, in fairly high relief, of Ohio River paddlewheel steamboat titled "J. & C. Ritchie" in rectangular curved corners central shield. Below this is a large thistle & then an anthemion. On each side of boat are large urns holding blossoms and vines swirling around top. Lacy background.

Published ReferencesInnes, PITTSBURGH GLASS, fig. 306. Spillman, AMERICAN & EUROPEAN PRESSED GLASS IN THE CORNING MUSEUM, #311. James H. Rose, "Wheeling Lacy Glass," ANTIQUES, June 1956, pp. 526-527. Gary E. Baker, "Lacy Window Panes," THE CHRYSLER MUSEUM BULLETIN, 7/8, July/August 1986, pg. 4, ill. Diane C. Wright (editor), _Glass Masterworks from the Chrysler Museum of Art_ (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017), pg.88-91.