Cream Pitcher

Place of Originprobably England

Date1765-1775

Dimensions3 13/16 × 1 15/16 × 1 11/16 in. (9.7 × 5 × 4.3 cm)

Mediumlead glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.260

Not on View

DescriptionSlightly purplish blue lead glass. Blown in a part-size mold of two or three pieces patterned with twelve lateral rows of diamonds with twenty diamonds in each row. Applied solid semi-ear-shaped handle with upturned lower end. Applied sloping foot. All finished by tooling. Rough pontil mark.

Published ReferencesNorthend, Mary Harrod, American Glass, New York, Dodd, Mead, 1926, frontis., right.

Knittle, Rhea Mansfield, Early American Glass, New York, Century, 1927, pl. 11, bottom left.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 55, pl. 23, no. 11.

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. 779, no. 1314.