PRESSED LACY SMALL TOY TUREEN AND COVER, sapphire blue, various fan, lily, scroll, star and diamond design elements. Together with a matching pattern medium amethyst tureen base. Two pieces total. Boston & Sandwich Glass Co. 1835-1850. 2" HOA, 1 7/8" x 3".
Amethyst example with a chip to the rim resulting in a crack, chip to one handle, sapphire cover with a flake to the edge and typical mold roughness, base with typical mold roughness to the rim and base.
Literature: Parallels Barlow/Kaiser - The Glass Industry in Sandwich, vol. 3, p. 224, fig. 3347.
Provenance: Collection of the late Shirley Reed, Maplewood, NJ.

Amethyst example with a chip to the rim resulting in a crack, chip to one handle, sapphire cover with a flake to the edge and typical mold roughness, base with typical mold roughness to the rim and base.