Cream Pitcher

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Cream Pitcher

Place of OriginUnited States, Ohio or Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Date1815-1835

DimensionsH: 14.3 cm (5 5/8 in.); Rim Diam: 7.5 cm (2 15/16 in.); Base Diam: 6.0 cm (2 3/8 in.)

MediumDeep amber lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1948.54

Not on View

DescriptionBlown and patterned in a one-piece dip mold with 24 vertical ribs. Blown, expanded and tooled to shape. A spiral tool mark circles the neck five times just below the rim. The semi-ear-shaped handle is solid, with a short folded crimp at the end. The ribs extend under the base about 1.3 cm (1/2 in.); a rough, solid pontil mark obscures their termination.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pp. 138-141, 219-228, pl. 77, no. 2.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1950; rev. ed., 1966, pp. 65-73.

Rogers, Millard F., Jr., "American Glass: 1608-1940," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 4, no. 3, Summer 1961, pp. 51-70, repr. p. 66.

McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, pp. 121-128.

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. 150, no. 147, colorpl. 147, p. 85.