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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
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  • Glass
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).
Plate
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1845-1860
Cape Cod Glass Works, Sandwich, Massachusetts
1865-1875
Compote
Bakewell, Pears and Company
1860-1875
Boston and Sandwich Glass Works
1828-1830
Goblet
Fort Pitt Glass Works
1855-1870; possibly 1920s

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