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Eggcup

ManufacturerPossibly Central Glass Works (American, 1863-1891)

DateProbably 1880-1891

DimensionsH: 10.1 cm (4 in.); Rim Diam: 6.5 cm (2 9/16 in.); Base Diam: 6.0 cm (2 3/8 in.)

MediumOpal lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.106

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upright in a female mold of two vertical sections bearing the Crystal pattern, with a plain, slightly domed base plate that formed the underside of the foot, with a cap ring that formed the top of the rim, by a plain male plunger. The moldmarks extend from the lower edge of the foot vertically along the sides of two opposite panels to the juncture of the arches. Rim fire-polished. No pontil mark.

Published ReferencesCentral Glass Company, Wheeling, WV, Catalogue, n.d. (1881-91), p. 17 (pattern).

Lee, Ruth Webb, Early American Pressed Glass, Wellesley Hills, Mass., author, 1960, pp. 68-69 (Crystal pattern), form no. 10.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pl. 208, no. 1 (with applied handle).

M'Kee and Brothers, M'Kee Victorian Glass: Five Complete Glass Catalogs from 1859/60 to 1871, ed. with intro. and test by Lowell Innes and Jane S. Spillman, Corning, NY, and New York, Corning Museum of Glass in association with Dover, 1981, p. 20, bottom (repr. of page from M'Kee and Brother 1859-60 catalogue), top row ("Crys. Egg.; $1.10 per doz."); p. 56 (repr. of page from 1864 M'Kee catalogue), bottom row ("Crystal Egg; $1.75 per doz.").

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. 510, no. 856.