Cup Plate
Cup Plate
ManufacturerPossibly
Boston and Sandwich Glass Works
(American, 1826-1888)
Place of Originprobably Sandwich, Massachusetts, United States
Date1840-1850
Dimensions3 9/16 in. (9 cm)
Mediumglass
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1917.567
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 76-scallop rim. Plain narrow foot ring. Colorless glass.
Published ReferencesCarrick, Alice Van Leer, "Historical Glass Cup-Plates," Antiques, vol. 1, February 1922, pp. 61-66 (Reprint 2, pp. 121-126), pp. 65-66, fig. 36.
McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pl. 181, no. 25.
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. 344, no. 641, pl. 100.
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. 463.
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