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THBIMPORTANT PRESSED LACY LANCET AND LEAF RECTANGULAR COVERED HONEY DISH / CASKET WITH UNDERTRAY
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LiveJun 26, 2025
Jeffrey S. Evans & Assoc., Inc. info@jeffreysevans.com
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- Lot Description
IMPORTANT PRESSED LACY LANCET AND LEAF RECTANGULAR COVERED HONEY DISH / CASKET WITH UNDERTRAY, colorless lead glass, complex Shell and Scroll rim, fitted with a period Gothic Arches cover with figural Shell finial, matching pattern undertray. Midwestern. Circa 1835. 6" HOA. Dish: 4" x 6 3/8". Tray: 5 1/2" x 8".
Published: Tray in Bourne - The William J. Elsholz Collection, Vol. II, p. 251, lot 959.
Literature: Innes - Pittsburgh Glass, p. 276, fig. 287. Spillman - American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, p. 68, fig. 157. Dish and cover only: Rose - The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period 1825-1850, No. 349, exhibit catalogue frontispiece and p. 105, "Apparently unique."
Catalogue Note: The present covered dish and tray is one of only three recorded complete examples and is among the most complex pressed pieces made during the lacy period.Condition
Cover in excellent condition with expected flaking around the rim; tray in very good to excellent condition with scattered flaking and chipping around the edge with one chip resulting in a small loss at one scroll corner; dish having a crack to each side of the body, overall flaking and chipping around the top edge with some chips resulting in small losses.
- Provenance
Private Collection.
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York.
Tray: Ex-collection of Walter E. Simmons II.
Richard A. Bourne Co., Inc., 5/5/1987, lot 959.
Ex-collection of William J. Elsholz (retains collection label).
George Abraham & Gilbert May, 9/12/1964.
Ex-collection of John Rollin Stuart III.
Ex-collection of George C. Cannon.
Exhibited: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 2001-2002, Of the Newest Fashion: Masterpieces of American Neo-Classical Decorative Arts, p. 99, cat. 69, and ibid., 2006, In Pointed Style: The Gothic Revival in America 1800-1860, no. 17b. - Shipping Info
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