IMPORTANT MARKED "J.&.C. RITCHIE" LACY WINDOW PAN

IMPORTANT MARKED "J.&.C. RITCHIE" LACY WINDOW PANE, colorless, central reserve depicting a side-wheel steamboat below the lettering and a draped tassel, surrounded by neo-classical style urns and flowers with a thistle centered below. A previously unrecorded example of arguably the most desirable and iconic of all American lacy window panes. Wheeling Flint Glass Works, Wheeling, (W)VA, John and Craig Ritchie, proprietors. 1833-1836. 7" x 5".
Reference: Elsholz, lot #403, which was exhibited at the Henry Ford Museum in 1960.
Spillman, fig. 311, Corning collection; also illus. Antiques/Am. Glass, p. 141.
Wilson/Toledo, fig. 578, ex: Duckworth collection.
Innes, pl. 306, fig. 1, ex: Grossman collection.
Wheeling, pls. 21 and 24, Oglebay Institute collection.
Provenance: From a 30-year private collection near Wheeling, WV.

Proof except for a minute flake and hint of mold roughness to reverse edge