Cup Plate

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Cup Plate

ManufacturerPossibly Boston and Sandwich Glass Works (American, 1826-1888)

Place of OriginUnited States, probably Sandwich, Massachusetts

Date1838-1840

Dimensions3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.558

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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 67-scallop rim. Plain rounded foot ring. Colorless glass of inferior quality.

Published ReferencesCarrick, Alice Van Leer, "Historical Glass Cup-Plates," Antiques, vol. 1, February 1922, pp. 61-66 (Reprint 2, pp. 121-126), pp. 63-64, fig. 15.

Alice Van Leer Carrick and Editor, "Notes on Historical Glass Cup-Plates," Antiques, vol. 4, January 1923, pp. 25-26.

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. 8.

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. 315, no. 568, pl. 90.

Roger Dodsworth, in Klein, Dan and Ward Lloyd, eds., The History of Glass, London, Orbis, 1984, repr. p. 192, 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. 356, no. 465.