Celery vase, 1827–35, Made in Sandwich, Massachusetts, United States, American, Pressed glass, H. 7 5/16 in. (18.6 cm); Diam. 4 9/16 in. (11.6 cm), Glass, Attributed to Boston & Sandwich Glass Company (American, 1825–1888, Sandwich, Massachusetts), The development of pressed glass during the 1820s was the most innovative technological improvement since the invention of the blowpipe two thousand years earlier. Credited as an American development, it revolutionized glassmaking, taking the process out of the hands of the individual glass blower, and enabling the shape and decoration of an object to be made in a single swift process
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Celery vase, 1827–35, Sandwich, Massachusetts, United States, American, Pressed glass, H, 7 5/16, 18.6 cm, Diam, 4 9/16, 11.6, Glass, Attributed to Boston & Sandwich Glass Company, 1825–1888, development, pressed, 1820s, innovative technological, improvement, invention, blowpipe two, thousand, years, earlier, Credited, American development, revolutionized glassmaking, taking, process out, hands, individual, blower, enabling, shape, decoration, object, single swift, process
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