About the Artwork
Clear Cape Cod Lily Vase
between 1828 and 1830
Boston & Sandwich Glass Company
1826 - 1888
American
Unknown
Pressed lead glass
Overall: 7 1/4 × 4 1/2 inches (18.4 × 11.4 cm)
Glass
American Art before 1950
Founders Society Purchase; gifts from William C. Weber, Margaret C. Horn, Sarah Common, the Heirs of Mrs. Matilda F. Barclay, Mrs. Robert Hopkins, Mrs. Campbell Harvey and Thomas A. Jenkins by exchange
2000.47
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
around 1980-1999, private collection
1999-2000, Hirschl and Adler Galleries, Inc. (New York, New York, USA)
2000-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Green, Charles, M.D. “Little Known Sandwich.” The Magazine Antiques XXXVII (February 1940): p. 69 (ill.).
Lee, Ruth Webb. Sandwich Glass. Northborough, MA, 1947, p. 239 (pl. 68).
McKearin, George S. and Helen. American Glass. 1948, p. 363, no. 8 (pl. 163).
Rose, James H. The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period 1825-1850. Exh. cat., Corning Museum of Glass. Corning, NY, 1954, p. 68, no. 57 [as New England, before 1830].
Americana Midwest Collectors’ Choice. Exh. cat., Henry Ford Museum. Dearborn, MI, p. 81, no. 464 (ill.).
Spillman, Jane Shadel. “American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass.” 1981, p. 67, no. 156 (ill.).
“American Decorative Arts Acquisitions 1985-2005.” Bulletin of the DIA 81, 1-2 (2007): p. 63.
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Boston & Sandwich Glass Company, Clear Cape Cod Lily Vase, between 1828 and 1830, pressed lead glass. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase; gifts from William C. Weber, Margaret C. Horn, et al., 2000.47.
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