colorless, deep bowl with eight ribs and a plain rim, raised on an applied baluster-form stem and circular foot with a polished pontil mark, high-peaked eight-rib cover with an applied solid pyriform finial. Attributed to Bakewell, Pears & Co., Pittsburgh, PA, or possibly Louisville, KY. 17 1/2" HOA, 6 3/8" D rim, 5 1/4" D foot. Circa 1850-1875.
Literature: See Innes - Pittsburgh Glass, p. 198, fig. 187-2, for a virtually identical example. Also see The Magazine Antiques, November 1947, Jane Keller Caldwell, "Early Kentucky Glass," p. 369, for an identical (possibly the same) example.
Published: Glass Collector's Digest, vol. VII, no. 1, Eason Eige, "Riverboat Glass - The Layton Collection," p. 43.
Provenance: Pennsylvania private collection. Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, 9/26/09, lot 28.
Ex-collection of Lyn & Gordon Layton.
Exhibition: Huntington (WV) Museum of Art, no. 142, 1993.
Catalogue Note: The Bakewell, Pears & Co. 1868 catalog illustrates an identical "Pillar Urn" show jar on page 27. These jars were produced in 1/2, 3/4, and 1 gallon sizes and were among the most expensive items offered in the catalog, selling for $25.25 to $33.75 per dozen.
Condition
Jar undamaged, cover with a chip to the finial seat and the inner rim flange.