Cup Plate
Cup Plate
ManufacturerProbably
Boston and Sandwich Glass Works
(American, 1826-1888)
Place of Originprobably Sandwich, Massachusetts, United States
Date1835-1855
Dimensions3 3/4 × 2 9/16 in. (9.6 × 6.5 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1917.566
Not on View
DescriptionPressed upside down over a plain male mold by a female plunger bearing the pattern, with a cap ring that formed the rim of 82 even scallops. Rope foot ring. Opalescent lead glass.
Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb and James H. Rose, American Glass Cup Plates: The First Classified Check List and Historical Treatise on the Subject, 3d ed., Northboro, Mass., authors, 1948, p. 577, no. 459Q (no opalescent examples cited).
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. 359, no. 472.
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