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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
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  • Glass
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.

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