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Cup Plate

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

Place of Originprobably Sandwich, Massachusetts, United States

Date1841-1850

Dimensions3 3/4 × 2 1/16 in. (9.5 × 5.3 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.568

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upside down over a plain male mold by a female plunger bearing the pattern and inscription with a cap ring that formed the 53-scallop rim and edge. Plain rounded 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), p. 65, fig. 37.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pl. 186, no. 5.

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. 346, no. 645Aa, pl. 100.

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, fig. 242, bottom 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. 138, no. 440.

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, Mass., Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 3, nos. 1739 (emerald green).

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. 462.