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Cup Plate

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

Place of Originprobably Sandwich, Massachusetts, United States

Date1835-1855

Dimensions3 5/16 in. (8.4 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.564

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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 76-scallop rim. Rope foot ring. Sapphire-blue lead glass.

Published ReferencesLee, 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. 275, no. 459B.

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, p. 279, fig. 242, top center.

Spillman, Jane S., American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Museum of Glass Catalog Series, Corning, N.Y., Corning Museum of Glass, 1981, p. 130, no. 411.

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, Mass., Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 2, no. 857.

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. 358, no. 471.