Door Frame with Two Pressed Glass Panels, J. & C. Ritchie, Wheeling Flint Glass Works (1829-39),...

Door Frame with Two Pressed Glass Panels, J. & C. Ritchie, Wheeling Flint Glass Works (1829-39), Wheeling, West Virginia, 1833. Fragment of tiger maple-veneered cabinet door framing two 4 1/2 x 6 1/2-inch lead glass panels press-molded with a central cartouche inscribed 'J. & C. RITCHIE' above a steamboat, flanked by urns holding flowers and vines over a large thistle, stippled ground throughout, the frame retaining one brass hinge and old painted surface, wd. 16 3/4, dp. 1 1/4, ht. 11 5/8 in. Footnotes: Provenance Collection of Dorothy-Lee Jones Ward (1948-2022), Wellesley, Massachusetts, and Sebago, Maine. Literature An analogous pressed glass panel at the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York, is illustrated in James H. Rose, 'Wheeling Lacy Glass' Antiques 69 (June 1956): 526; and one from the John J. Grossman collection is published in Lowell Innes, Pittsburgh Glass, 1797-1891 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1976), p. 285. Versions of this pane are also in the collections of Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia; and Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio. A lantern glazed with the windowpanes is at Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Virginia, and a glazed panel in similarly veneered and painted cabinet frame is in the collection of Oglebay Glass Museum, Wheeling, West Virginia. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing