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Cup Plate

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

Place of OriginUnited States, Massachusetts, Sandwich

Date1835-1850

Dimensions3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.591

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upside down over a plain male mold by a female plunger bearing the pattern, with a cap ring that formed the rim of 23 large scallops alternating with 23 pairs of small scallops. Plain rounded foot ring. Light yellowish green glass.

Published ReferencesCarrick, Alice Van Leer, "Historical Glass Cup-Plates," Antiques, vol. 1, February 1922, pp. 61-66 (Reprint 2, pp. 121-126), pp. 61-62.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pl. 181, no. 26.

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, pp. 334-335, no. 610A, pl. 96.

Welker, John and Elizabeth Welker, Pressed Glass in America; Encyclopedia of the First Hundred Years, 1825-1925, Ivyland, Pa., Antique Acres Press, 1985, p. 239, fig. 8-22, top row, third from left.

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. 461.