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Pitcher

Place of Originprobably Eastern United States

Date1840-1850

Dimensions4 1/2 × 3 1/16 × 2 3/4 in. (11.5 × 7.7 × 7 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.582

Not on View

DescriptionBlown in a mold of two vertical sections and a plain base plate. On the obverse: the motto in a cartouche of four wheat stalks. On the reverse: a steam-sail vessel and a lighthouse in a beaded medallion. Applied handle with upturned lower end. Rough pontil mark. Opal (dense opaque white non-lead) glass.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pl. 62, nos. 1, 3 (no. 4 is a syrup jug, or molasses can, blown in the same mold).

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. 544, no. 900.