Cheese Dish with Cover

Decorative Arts and Design

On View: Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor

MANUFACTURER Boston and Sandwich Glass Company

MEDIUM Glass

Place Manufactured: Sandwich, Massachusetts, United States

DATES 1875–1885

DIMENSIONS (a) Dish: 15/16 x 9 5/16 x 9 5/16 in. (2.4 x 23.7 x 23.7 cm) (b) Cover: 6 1/8 x 6 7/8 x 6 7/8 in. (15.6 x 17.5 x 17.5 cm)

MARKINGS (a) Rectangular white sticker affixed to underside: printed in red in script, "The / Glass Industry / in Sandwich / 4102 [handwritten in black ink]" (b) Identical sticker affixed to inside edge.

COLLECTIONS Decorative Arts and Design

ACCESSION NUMBER 1998.96.8a-b

CREDIT LINE Gift of Paul F. Walter

CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION Colorless glass cheese dish (a) with cover (b). (a) Dish: round plate with flat bottom, everted rim, underside covered with applied textured surface. (b) High-domed cover with straight sides covered with textured surface on exterior; applied knob-shaped finial at top. Condition: Good.

MUSEUM LOCATION This item is on view in Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor

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