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PAIR OF PRESSED BIGLER VASES, canary yellow, each w

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PAIR OF PRESSED BIGLER VASES, canary yellow, each with a gauffered 10-flute rim and deep conical bowl joined by a triple-ring wafer to a double-knop stem, octagonal baluster-form standard and square base. Probably Boston & Sandwich Glass Co . 1840-1860. 11 5/8" and 11 3/4" high, 4 1/4" and 4 1/2" diameter rims, 3 1/8" square bases.
Reference: Elsholz, lot #1850, this being the actual pair.
Parallels B & K III, fig. 3030.
Parallels McKearin Am. Glass, pl. 198, fig. 15.
Provenance: The Duff & Molly Allen Collection. Richard A. Bourne Co., Inc., 11/18/87, lot #1850, $950. Ex-coll: William J. Elsholz (retains one label). Exhibited Detroit Institute of Arts, 1953, No. 126. George & Michael Abraham, 3/15/52

Undamaged except for one base with a minor interior flake and three shallow 1/4" annealing checks to the foot exterior as made. The normal slight differences in the upper dimensions occurred during the gauffering process

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