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Manufacturer Westmoreland Speciality Company (American, 1890-1924)

Date1903-1910

DimensionsDiam: 18.8 cm (7 13/32 in.)

MediumOpal non-lead glass, slightly yellowish and opalescent.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. E. M. Belknap

Object number

1965.186

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upside down in a one-piece female mold bearing the pattern, with a cap ring that formed the back of the rim of alternating eagles and fleurs-de-lys and the edge of the base and its underside, by a plain male plunger. No pontil mark.

Published ReferencesBelknap, E. M., Milk Glass, New York, Crown, 1949, repr. p. 16, no. 12-A (Roger Williams Monument in center).

Revi, Albert C., American Pressed Glass and Figure Bottles, New York and Toronto, Nelson, 1964, p. 339, top right (plain center).

Ferson, Regis F. and Mary Fleming Ferson, Yesterday's Milk Glass Today, Pittsburgh, authors, 1981, pp. 83-84, no. 418; p. 161, no. 638.

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. 514, no. 866.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Belknap Collection of Milk Glass, exh. cat., 1965.