Cream Pitcher

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Cream Pitcher

Place of OriginUnited States, probably New England

Date1825-1840

Dimensions3 1/16 × 2 3/16 × 1 3/4 in. (7.8 × 5.6 × 4.5 cm)

Mediumlead glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.234

Not on View

DescriptionSapphire-blue. Blown in a mold (McKearin G.III-23) of three vertical sections and a base plate (McKearin Rayed Type IV). Neck, rim, and spout sheared and tooled to shape. Applied slender handle with upturned lower end. Slightly rough pontil mark. Capacity: one-half pint.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S., and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948.

McKearin, Helen and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978; etc., GIII-23, p. 256, pl. 94; p. 261, pl. 100, no. 28; p. 320.

Wilson, Kenneth M., American Glass, 1760-1930: The Toledo Museum of Art, New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, [Lanham, Md.]: National Book Network [distributor], c1994; 2 v. (879 p.): ill. (some col.); 32 cm., 1994, p. 224, no. 254.