Cream Pitcher

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Cream Pitcher

Place of OriginProbably Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Date1815-1840

DimensionsH 12.1 cm (4 25/32 in.); D rim 7.8 cm (3 1/8 in.); D base 5.7 cm (2 1/4 in.)

MediumGrayish blue lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

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

Object number

1959.90

Not on View

DescriptionBlown in a one-piece dip mold patterned with 16 vertical ribs. Expanded and finished by tooling. Plain base. Solid applied handle, the lower end decorated with a leaf that was probably impressed. Rough, solid pontil mark. Incised line below the lip.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pp. 233-234, pl. 77, no. 2; pl. 52, nos. 3, 9.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1950; rev. ed., 1966, pp. 66-73, pl. 27, no. 2.

Rogers, Millard F., Jr., "The Story of American Glass," TMA Museum News, vol. 9, no. 3, Autumn 1966, pp. 51-70; rev. and reprinted as a Toledo Museum handbook, repr. p. 63.

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. 193, no. 178, colorpl. 178, p. 155.