Plate

Place of OriginNew England

Dateabout 1830

DimensionsD rim 14.9 cm (5 7/8 in.); D base 8.6 cm (3 3/8 in.)

MediumOpalescent light yellowish-green glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1964.92

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upside down over a male mold bearing the delicate meandering-leaf pattern on the rim and the upper half of the cable on the edge of the rim that formed the plain center and cavetto by a female plunger bearing the pattern of hearts on the underside of the base of the plate, with a cap ring that formed the edge of the rim, the plain underside of the cavetto and rim, and the lower half of the cable on the edge of the rim. No base ring.

Published ReferencesAyer, Rose L., "Six-Inch Glass Tea Plates," Antiques, vol. 20, July 1931, pp. 34-35, figs. 3-7.

Lee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, Mass., author, 1947, p. 325, pl. 107, top right.

Watkins, Lura W., "Early Glass Pressing at Cambridge and Sandwich," Antiques, pt. 1, vol. 28, October 1935, p. 151, fig. 3 (Reprint 2, p. 2).

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 352, pl. 141, no. 3.

Rose, James H., The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, exh. cat., Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, N.Y., 1954, p. 70, no. 74.

Keefe, John W., "American Lacy and Pressed Glass in the Toledo Museum of Art," Antiques, vol. 100, July 1971, pp. 104-109 (Reprint 2, pp. 151-156), p. 104, repr. fig. 1, top right.

Spillman, Jane S., American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Museum of Glass Catalog Series, Corning, N.Y., Corning Museum of Glass, 1981, p. 78, no. 196.

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, Mass., Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 1, nos. 248, 407.

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. 311, no. 359, colorpl. 359, p. 249.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Early American Pressed Glass, exhibition, January 28-March 6, 1966 (no catalog).