Footed Cream Pitcher

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Footed Cream Pitcher

ManufacturerProbably Boston and Sandwich Glass Works (American, 1826-1888)

Place of Originprobably Sandwich, Massachusetts, United States

Date1825-1840

Dimensions4 3/16 × 2 7/8 × 2 1/2 in. (10.6 × 7.3 × 6.3 cm)

Mediumlead glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.245

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DescriptionDeep sapphire-blue. Blown in a mold (McKearin G.III-26) of three vertical sections and a base plate (McKearin Ringed Type III). Neck, rim, and spout sheared and tooled to shape. Rim folded inward. Foot tooled to shape. Applied slender handle with crimped and upturned lower end. Rough, solid pontil mark. Capacity: about one-half pint.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Web, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, Mass., author, 1947, p. 195, pl. 34, bottom right.

References to glass classifications established in McKearin, 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., G.III-26, p. 256, pl. 94; p. 321; p. 261, pl. 100, no. 23; p. 280; pl. 121, no. 9.

Barlow, Raymond E. and Joan E. Kaiser, The Glass Industry in Sandwich, ed. Lloyd C. Nickerson, 3 vols., Windham, N.H., authors, vol. 1, 1993, repr. p. 232, no. 1325.

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. 255; colorpl. 255, p. 158.