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Cup Plate

Place of OriginUnited States, probably New England

Date1831-1835

Dimensions3 7/16 in. (8.8 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.551

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DescriptionPressed upside down over a plain male mold by a female plunger bearing the pattern, with a cap ring that formed the 79-scallop rim. Plain rounded foot ring. Colorless glass.

Published ReferencesCarrick, Alice Van Leer, "Historical Glass Cup-Plates," Antiques, vol. 1, February 1922, pp. 61-66 (Reprint 2, pp. 121-126), p. 64, fig. 24.

Lee, 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. 359, no. 661, pl. 103.

Spillman, Jane S., American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Museum of Glass Catalog Series, Corning, N.Y., Corning Museum of Glass, 1981, p. 139, no. 445.

Welker, John and Elizabeth Welker, Pressed Glass in America; Encyclopedia of the First Hundred Years, 1825-1925, Ivyland, Pa., Antique Acres Press, 1985, 239, fig. 8-22, second row, second from left.

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. 354, no. 457.