colorless, the dish featuring a central shield-breast eagle surrounded by 13 stars, the shoulder displaying three different patterns and the stippling ending in an even edge inside the 72-scallop rim; raised on an ornate tripod base featuring large C-scrolls and hairy paw feet with buttons underneath, six-point star to interior apex, thick-wafer construction. Boston & Sandwich Glass Co. and possibly others. 5 3/4" H, 7 1/2" DOA, 7" D side to side. Circa 1835-1840.
Literature: Like Elsholz, lot 508. Bowl like Lee - Sandwich, p. 347, pl. 116. Base like B & K I, fig. 1100. Parallels the McKearins - American Glass, pl. 162, fig. 2.
Provenance: Property of Art & Kathy Green.
Catalogue Note: This Eagle dish is usually found on a round lacy base, and this tripod base is normally paired with Dahlia and Nectarine pattern bowls. The Elsholz example referenced above and an example sold through our gallery, October 23, 2010, lot 601 are the only illustrations that we could locate of the extremely rare combination seen here. See Wilson - New England, p. 277, for the base paired with a nappie and two different candlestick combinations.
Condition
Dish with crack across the center, loss of three scallops and partial loss of several others, base is remarkably undamaged.