Footed Cream Pitcher

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Footed Cream Pitcher

Place of OriginPIttsburgh, Pennsylvania

Date1815-1840

DimensionsH: 4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm); Rim Diam: 3 15/32 in. (8.8 cm); Base Diam: 2 25/32 in. (7.1 cm)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

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

Object number

1959.50

Not on View

DescriptionBlown and finished by tooling. Neck tooled below the lip. Applied sloping foot. Rough, solid pontil mark. Applied semi-ear-shaped handle crimped and turned up at its end. Body engraved, probably with stone wheels, with three sprays of leaves and a band of narrow leaves around the front of the throat.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 154, repr. pl. 50, no. 5.

Innes, Lowell, Pittsburgh Glass, 1791-1891: A History and Guide for Collectors, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1976, p. 171, repr. fig. 148.

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. 198, no. 189.

Exhibition HistoryBoston Public Library, Early American Glass Club Exhibition, 1937.