Footed Cream Pitcher and Ball Closure

Place of Originprobably New York, United States

Date1820-1850

Dimensions5 7/8 × 2 13/16 × 2 1/4 × 2 9/16 in. (15 × 7.1 × 5.7 × 6.5 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1920.18

On View

Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion (2444 Monroe Street), Glass Pavilion Gallery, 3

DescriptionPitcher: Blown and tooled to shape, South Jersey style. Six applied Type I lily pads. Applied very fine thread around neck and under lip. Applied trefoil handle with upturned lower end. Applied foot, crimped. Rough, open pontil mark. Ball closure: Blown and tooled. Open hole where cracked off blowpipe. Pitcher: pale aquamarine non-lead glass. Ball closure: paler aquamarine glass.

Published ReferencesGregory W. Stevens, "President Libbey's Recent Gift," TMA Museum News, no. 38, February 1921, repr. p. [5].

Gregor Norman-Wilcox, "On Attributing American Blown Glass," Antiques, vol. 36, August 1939, p. 73, fig. 4, no. E (Reprint 1, p. 94).

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 44, pl. 17, no. 3 (similar form and style).

Pepper, Adeline, The Glass Gaffers of New Jersey and Their Creations from 1739 to the Present, New York, Scribner's, 1971, p. 112, right.

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. 142, no. 124.