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SOUTH JERSEY FREE-BLOWN AND THREADED FOOTED PINT A

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SOUTH JERSEY FREE-BLOWN AND THREADED FOOTED PINT AND A HALF JUG, soft cobalt blue, squatty bulbous body below a slightly flared broad cylindrical neck with applied threading and a tooled rim, applied solid handle and heavy crimped foot with rough pontil mark. Attributed to Joel Duffield at the Whitney Glass Works, Glassboro, NJ . 1835-1860. 6 7/8" high, 4 3/4" diameter rim, 3 3/8" diameter foot .
Reference: Nearly identical to McKearin Am. Glass, pl. 60, fig. 6 (see note).
Elsholz, lot #199, this being the actual example.
Provenance: The Duff & Molly Allen Collection. Richard A. Bourne Co., Inc., 12/9/86, lot #199, $1,300. Ex-coll: William J. Elsholz (no label). Exhibited Detroit Institute of Arts, 1953, No. 27. George & Michael Abraham, 10/28/50
Note: George McKearin attributed his pitcher referenced above based on family history from the original owner. The pitcher offered here, which is nearly identical to the McKearin example, has an impeccable provenance and exhibition record. McKearin's pitcher, which now resides at Corning, was first published in the October, 1926 issue of Antiques, p. 274, and later in Pepper's Glass Gauffers of New Jersey, color plate 7, in addition to McKearin's own Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass, plate 40

Undamaged except for a small chip to the threading and a possible faint check to the body under the lower handle terminal, expected medial wear and scattered scratches to the body

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