World pattern (AKA Terrestrial Globe pattern)
Object NameButter Dish
Manufacturer
O'Hara Glass Company
(American (Pittsburgh, PA), 1875 - 1891)
Date1876
MediumClear, non-flint glass.
Dimensions9 3/4 x 8 in. (24.8 x 20.3 cm)
ClassificationsDecorative Arts, Glass
Credit LineGift of Iowa State Questers. In the Iowa Quester Glass Collection, Brunnier Art Museum, University Museums, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
Object numberUM2007.194ab
Status
On viewCollections
CultureAmerican
Label TextThe World butter dish is in the shape of a world's globe, with significant detailing of the continents on earth, including named land masses and oceans and marked longitude and latitude lines. The finial is in the shape of Columbia's head. The goddess Columbia is often identified as a symbol of new world exploration and freedom of our nation.
Only nine of this object were known to exist in 1990, and it is one of the most highly sought examples of Early American Pattern Glass. Other examples are in the collections of the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY and the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH.
Locations
- (not entered) Iowa State University, Farm House Museum
Object Name: Toothpick Holder / Souvenir
Tarentum Glass Co.
1899
Object number: UM2018.29
Object Name: Goblet
Columbia Glass Company
1885-1890
Object number: UM2006.91
Object Name: Cartoon
Jay Norwood Darling
June 5, 1929
Object number: UM98.34
Object Name: Toothpick Holder / Souvenir
Tarentum Glass Co.
1899
Object number: UM2018.112
Object Name: Sculpture, fountain and pool
Christian Petersen
1941
Object number: U88.69
