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Cup Plate

Place of OriginUnited States, New England

Date1831-1850

Dimensions3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.556

Not on View

DescriptionPressed, probably upside down, over a plain male mold by a female plunger bearing the pattern, with a cap ring that formed the rim of 25 large scallops alternating with 25 pairs of small scallops. 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), pp. 62-63, fig. 8.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 374, pl. 186, no. 12.

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. 313, no. 564, pl. 89.

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. 357, no. 466.