Cream Pitcher

Place of Originprobably England

Date1765-1775

Dimensions3 15/16 × 1 13/16 × 1 7/8 in. (10 × 4.6 × 4.7 cm)

Mediumlead glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.278

Not on View

DescriptionSlightly purplish blue lead glass. Blown in a part-size mold of two or three pieces, applied handle and foot. Patterned with either six lateral rows of diamonds with sixteen diamonds in each row or five lateral rows above a row of flutes. Rather weak applied handle with upturned end. Applied tooled sloping foot. Rough, open pontil mark, with small deposit of black iron oxide in center.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 6, pl. 3, no. 7.

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. 1315.