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

DescriptionVase of blown colorless glass. With a cobalt blue bulb. Colorless long neck with a flaring turned rim. Applied colorless solid baluster stem and round foot. Rough pontil. Good condition, with heavy foot wear and inside rim patches of wear.

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.