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Maker(s):American Glass Company
Culture:American (1840-1857)
Title:bowl
Date Made:1840-1857
Type:Food Service
Materials:colorless lead glass
Place Made:United States; Massachusetts; East Cambridge or South Boston
Accession Number:  HD 2014.19.91.1
Credit Line:D.J. and Alice Shumway Nadeau Collection
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
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Description:
One of a pair; colorless, lead glass compote, freeblown with pressed base, circular bowl with folded over (inward or outward?) rim; the bowl is attached to the base by two wafers of glass (a small one and a larger one); the pressed base has a faceted, hexagonal stem ending in a stepped pedestal, base is square with three rounded corners, the interior of the pressed base is smooth; base pressed in a one-piece female mold that formed the shape by a plain male plunger, with a cap ring formed the underside of the perimeter of the base. Condition: one of the bowls has a small hairline (crack) or deep curving scratch within the bowl –

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