Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.

Vase

Manufacturer Unknown

CultureAmerican

Dateca. 1830

MediumBlown glass

DimensionsOverall: 9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm)
Overall, Rim: 4 in. (10.2 cm)
Base: 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm)

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number86.175

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 116-3, Case 18

ProvenancePurchased by Gary Stradling at Lowell Innes sale, May 3, 1986; purchased from Stradling by Chrysler Museum of Art, 1986, with funds provided by Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.Published ReferencesMcKearin, AMERICAN GLASS, #6, pl. 54, pg. 158. ANTIQUES MAGAZINE, Dec. 1948, pg. 419, fig. 5, ex-Lowell Innes Collection, catalog #182. Innes, PITTSBURGH GLASS, fig. 44, pg. 98 & 101. Innes, EARLY GLASS OF THE PITTSBURGH DISTRICT, Carnegie Museum, pg. 45, book states history of having been made by Thomas Bovard, a blower at one of the Pittsburgh glass houses.