Pressed Glass Cup Plate Base and Similar Lamp, Boston & Sandwich Glass Co. (1825-88), Sandwich, ...

Pressed Glass Cup Plate Base and Similar Lamp, Boston & Sandwich Glass Co. (1825-88), Sandwich, Massachusetts, c. 1830. Thick pressed flint glass plate molded without cap ring, a large pontil scar on top surface, the pattern impressed on reverse centering a framed rosette surrounded by strawberry diamond lozenges on a stippled ground, the rim with alternating sheaves of wheat and tiny hearts inside a shaped scallop-and-point edge molded without a cap ring, together with a blown-glass conical font mounted on spool stem with bladed wafer joint above a 3 3/4-inch cup plate base of similar pattern without stippling, fitted with later burner, cup plate, diam. 3 7/8, ht. 5/8 in. Footnotes: Provenance Collection of Dorothy-Lee Jones Ward (1948-2022), Wellesley, Massachusetts, and Sebago, Maine. Literature Ruth Webb Lee and James H. Rose, American Glass Cup Plates (Northborough: Ruth Webb Lee, 1948), cat. no. 50-51. Raymond E. Barlow and Joan E. Kaiser, The Glass Industry in Sandwich vol. 1 (Atglen: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1993), cat. no. 1350-1351. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing