Dish and Cover

Manufacturer Indiana Tumbler and Goblet Company (American, 1884-1903)

Date1898-1900

DimensionsH (with cover): 13.75 cm (5 13/32 in.); H (dish): 9.15 cm (3 19/32 in.); Rim Diam: 11.4 cm (4 1/2 in.); Base Diam: 9.9 cm (3 29/32 in.)

MediumOpal lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. E. M. Belknap

Object number

1965.192A-B

Not on View

DescriptionDish: pressed upright in a female mold of three vertical sections bearing the pattern, with a base plate patterned with rays extending from its center almost to the edge that formed the underside of the dish, with a cap ring that formed the upper face of the rim, by a plain male plunger. The moldmarks extend vertically from the underside of the base to the scalloped rim. No pontil mark. Cover: pressed upside down in a female mold of two vertical sections, opening at the center of the shoulders, with a cap ring that formed the lower edge of the cover, by a male plunger bearing a stippled pattern on its shoulder that was imparted to the center of the underside of the cover. No fire-polishing. No pontil mark.

Published ReferencesBelknap, E. M., Milk Glass, New York, Crown, 1949, repr. p. 175, no. 161-A.

Herrick, Ruth, Greentown Glass: The Indiana Tumbler and Goblet Company and Allied Manufacturers, Grand Rapids, Mich., author, 1959, p. 20, fig. 144.

Marsh, Tracy H., The American Story Recorded in Glass, Minneapolis, MInn., author, 1962, p. 336, no. 327.

Lindsey, Bessie M., American Historical Glass: Historical Association Adds Distinction to Glassware, Rutland, Vt., Tuttle, 1967, pp. 395-396, no. 389.

Revi, Albert C., American Pressed Glass and Figure Bottles, New York and Toronto, Nelson, 1964, p. 202.

Ferson, Regis F. and Mary Fleming Ferson, Yesterday's Milk Glass Today, Pittsburgh, authors, 1981, pp. 82, 83, no. 412.

Measell, James, Greentown Glass: The Indiana Tumbler and Goblet Company, Grand Rapids, MI, Grand Rapids Public Library, 1979, p. 69, no. 101.

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. 515, no. 868, colorpl. 868, p. 264.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, E. M. Belknap Collection of Milk Glass, exh. cat., 1949.

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