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Cup Plate

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

Place of Originprobably Sandwich, Massachusetts, United States

Date1834-1840

Dimensions3 7/16 in. (8.7 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.560

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 63-scallop rim. Colorless glass.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 372, pl. 181, no. 20.

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, pp. 340-341, no. 632, pl. 99.

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. 459.