Cup Plate

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Cup Plate

Place of Originprobably New England, United States

Dateabout 1840

DimensionsW rim: 3 7/16 in. (8.7 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.563

Not on View

DescriptionPressed, probably upside down, over a plain male mold by a female plunger bearing the pattern, with the cap ring that formed the 60-scallop rim. Very narrow plain foot ring. Light emerald-green glass.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pl. 184, no. 56.

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. 193, no. 247, pl. 50.

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. 390, no. 547.