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Cream Pitcher

ManufacturerProbably Union Flint Glass Works (American, 1826-1844)

Date1830-1840

DimensionsH: 13.6 cm (5 11/32 in.); Rim W: 9.4 cm (3 11/16 in.); Base Diam: 5.8 cm (2 5/16 in.)

MediumColorless glass

ClassificationGlass

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

Object number

1959.56

Not on View

DescriptionBlown in a mold (McKearin G.V-7) of three vertical sections and a plain base plate. Neck, rim, and spout sheared and tooled to shape. Applied hollow ear-shaped handle with crimped and upturned lower end. Rough, solid pontil mark. Capacity: 1 pint.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S., and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948

McKearin, Helen and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978; etc., G.V-7, p. 259, pl. 98; p. 322; p. 271; pl. 116, no. 6.

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. 225, no. 258.

Davidson, Benjamin and Pippa Biddle, “Looking at the Past through a Lens of Antique Glass,” Magazine Antiques, Jan/Feb 2022, repr. p. 102.