Windowpane

A rare manifestation of pressed-glass production is a small number of window panes richly ornamented with classically inspired motifs. They were intended as side lights or transom lights for the front doors of Greek Revival houses. One surviving example has a history of usage around Sandwich, Massachusetts, and another came from the transom of a Wheeling, West Virginia, house.

Related examples: An opalescent example at the Corning Museum of Glass, Coming, New York, was found at Sandwich, Massachusetts (Spillman 1981, p. 99, no. 294); amber examples are at the MMA, found in Wheeling, West Virginia (acc. no. 1984.229), and the St. Louis Art Museum (acc. no. 56.1996).

Book excerpt: David B. Warren, Michael K. Brown, Elizabeth Ann Coleman, and Emily Ballew Neff. American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection. Houston: Princeton Univ. Press, 1998.