Plate

Place of OriginProbably Midwest

Date1860-1865

DimensionsDiam: 6 3/32 in. (15.5 cm)

MediumAmethyst lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.135

Not on View

DescriptionPressed, probably upside down, over a plain male mold, with a cap ring that formed the rim, by a female plunger bearing the Bigler pattern. No fire-polishing. No pontil mark.

Published ReferencesInnes, Lowell, Pittsburgh Glass, 1791-1891: A History and Guide for Collectors, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1976, p. 345, fig. 370, nos. 2 (plate), 3 (bowl).

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. 477, no. 779.