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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Sauce dish
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.

Sauce dish

Manufacturer Union Glass Co.
CultureAmerican
Dateca. 1854-1865
MediumPressed glass
DimensionsOverall: 1 in. (2.5 cm)
Overall, Rim: 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm)
Base: 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.5257
Not on view
DescriptionSauce dish of pressed colorless glass. Star bottom with incuse diamond pattern. Boldly beaded edge. Relates to a berry bowl at Corning with a history of descent in the factory owner's family. Flakes on rim.

Published ReferencesWilson, NEW ENGLAND GLASS, pp. 309-312; fig. 257. Spillman, AMERICAN & EUROPEAN PRESSED GLASS, pg. 271, #1075.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Union Glass Co.
ca. 1854-1865
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Union Glass Co.
ca. 1854-1865
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Union Glass Co.
ca. 1854-1865
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Boston & Sandwich Glass Co.
ca. 1850
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Boston & Sandwich Glass Co.
ca. 1850-1860
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Boston & Sandwich Glass Co.
ca. 1845
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
T.G. Hawkes & Co.
1850-1899
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Unknown
ca. 1850
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Unknown
ca. 1835-1840
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Union Glass Co.
ca. 1854-1864