Pattern Name:BULLSEYE

Pattern Motif:Geometric

Glass Type:Flint

Era:1840s

Description:50 Favorites - 40 BULLSEYE was described by Bob H. Batty as “the most familiar and widely known of all pressed glass.” When considered as pattern, this seems unlikely. But when BULLSEYE is considered as a motif, the assertion may have validity. Batty noted, for instance, that S. T. Millard listed no less than 20 patterns that incorporate “Bulls Eye” in their titles. The basic BULLSEYE pattern was called “Lawrence” by the New England Glass Company of Cambridge, Massachusetts. They illustrated it in a large number of forms in their c.1869 trade catalog. The pattern also was made in Sandwich, according to Ruth Webb Lee, who noted that later, non-lead versions were made, possible by another company, sometime in the 1880s. Lee stated in Early American Pressed Glass that “the present demand for this pattern does not seem to be very great, though it has much to recommend it. It is early, the lines and design are excellent, it is comparatively scarce and it is to be had in all the needed forms.” Millard shows the goblet with two types of stem and the other toward the top. The latter version corresponds to the trade catalog illustration by the New England Glass Company. (50 Favorites catalogue) U1, p.43; M1, p. 12