Just in time for the spring and summer blooms!
Your hot little casseroles will look mighty cool in this rare pink and white Pyrex set!
Oven/ heat proof. OK for dishwasher, but we recommend hand washing to preserve the lovely decoration as much as possible.
This set is considered Bakeware/Ovenware or Corningware.
Made in the USA
Includes:
* 2 Qt Quart Casserole Dish # 575-B
* 2 Qt Quart Casserole Lid # 550-C
The glass lid has some chips. one medium size one on top of the lid in one corner, smaller ones under--see photos.
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Pyrex is a brand name for glassware, introduced by Corning Incorporated in 1915.
Originally, Pyrex was made from borosilicate glass. In the 1940s the composition was changed for some products to tempered soda-lime glass, which is the most common form of glass used in glass bakeware in the US and has higher mechanical strength so is less vulnerable to breakage when dropped (the leading cause of breakage in glass bakeware). In 1998, Corning divested its consumer products division which subsequently adopted the name World Kitchen.
In 1908, Eugene Sullivan, Director of Research at Corning Glass Works, developed Nonex, a borosilicate low-expansion glass, to reduce breakage in shock-resistant lantern globes and battery jars. (Borosilicate glass was originally developed at the Jena Glass works by Otto Schott, which Sullivan had learned about as a doctoral student in Leipzig, Germany.) Jesse Littleton of Corning discovered the cooking potential of borosilicate glass by giving his wife a casserole dish made from a cut-down Nonex battery jar. Corning removed the lead from Nonex, and developed Pyrex as a consumer product. Pyrex glass bakeware products are to be found in an estimated 80% of American homes and approaching 400 million units have been sold since the divestiture in 1998 alone.
Pyrex kitchen glassware manufactured for sale in the United States is made at the World Kitchen facility in Charleroi, Pennsylvania. Pyrex products for the European Union are made at a factory in France. EU products and laboratory glassware continue to be made of borosilicate glass.
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