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A work made of pattern-molded blown glass.

Bowl

1821–29

Probably Mantua Glass Works American, 1821–1829 Mantua, Ohio

Mantua

This bowl was formerly in the collection of Henry Hall White, who was a pioneering collector and scholar of early American glass. It exhibits some of the hallmarks of glass made in Mantua, Ohio, including a broken swirl pattern, 16 ribs, and a terminal ring.

Pattern-molded blown glass

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Arts of the Americas