Cup Plate

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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 1/2 × 1 15/16 in. (8.9 × 4.9 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.561

Not on View

DescriptionPressed in the same manner as 1917.560, probably over the same male mold but by a different plunger and with a different cap ring that formed the rim with 38 scallops. Peacock-blue lead glass.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pl. 181, no. 19.

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. 340, no. 628, pl. 99.

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, Mass., Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 3, nos. 1734 (green), 1666.

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. 355, no. 460.