Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2585BLocation: BostonDate / Time: March 04, 2012 11:00AM
Description:
Pair of Sandwich Pressed Four-Printie Block Pattern Glass Vases, Boston & Sandwich Glass Company, Sandwich, Massachusetts, 1840-60, the blue vases with gauffered rim and hexagonal base, (chips to base edges and corners),ht. 11 1/4 in.
Literature: This vase is similar to one illustrated in The Glass Industry in Sandwich, by Raymond E. Barlow and Joan Kaiser, Barlow Kaiser Publishing Company, Inc., Windham, New Hampshire, in conjunction with Schiffer Publishing Ltd., Atglen, Pennsylvania, plate 3037a.
Estimate $400-600
One with several large shallow chips on base edge the other with minor base edge chips..