PRESSED ARCH DIMINUTIVE VASE, brilliant medium amethyst, flared and gauffered eight-flute rim and short conical bowl raised by an octagonal baluster-form standard and square base, wafer construction. Probably New England. 1845-1860. 8 3/4" H, 4 1/4" D rim, 2 5/8" SQ base.
Literature: Parallels Kaiser - The Glass Industry in South Boston, p. 162, fig. 223.
Provenance: Glass deaccessioned by Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT. All proceeds will go toward the museum's Collections Acquisition Fund.
Ex-collection of Channing Hare.
Proof. Having some roughness and annealing lines at the base points, as made.