PRESSED O'HARA / LOOP LOW FOOTED BOWL, swirling opalescent turquoise blue, shallow bowl with six loops and conforming rim scallops, raised on a short hexagonal stem and circular single-step foot. This form was manipulated from the large sugar bowl base which was flattened and expanded outward and the rim turned up. Probably Jas. B. Lyon & Co., Pittsburgh, PA. 1860-1870. 3" H, 9 1/2" D rim, 3 7/8" D foot.
Literature: Wilson - American Glass, vol. 1, fig. 798. Spillman - Corning, fig. 961. Palmer - Pittsburgh Glass, p. 185, cat. 100. Parallels Innes - Pittsburgh, p. 250, pl. 254. Like Elsholz, lot 1809.
Provenance: Anne Serra, Cuba, NY.
Catalogue Note: This bowl has been erroneously attributed to both Bakewell and M'Kee in the past. The attribution has apparently been based on the misidentification of this as a "Broad Flute saucer," illustrated on page 25 of the Bakewell, Pears & Co. (ca. 1875) catalogue. That catalogue page is also reprinted in Lee/EAPG, pl. 17, which is the source cited in Spillman, fig. 960, and Wilson - American Glass, fig. 798. See Stoudt - M'Kee, pg. 167 for another "Broad Flute saucer" which is illustrated in the M'Kee & Brothers 1871 catalogue. This is also apparently the basis for the M'Kee attribution. A search of both catalogues failed to locate any articles in the O'Hara/Loop pattern. _x000D_
On the other hand, Innes, pl. 329 reprints page 14 from the Jas. B. Lyon & Co. 1861 catalogue, which illustrates a large and a small covered sugar in the "O'Hara" pattern; each covered sugar has a short hexagonal stem and circular single-step foot which is identical to the bowl above. See Green Valley, 9/28/01, lot 341, for a fiery opalescent example of this bowl, which was not fully expanded and still showed evidence of the interior rim for the cover.
Very good condition overall with three minute open bubbles to the foot edge, as made, heavy interior wear.

Very good condition overall with three minute open bubbles to the foot edge, as made, heavy interior wear.