Toy Mug

ManufacturerProbably Adams and Company (American, 1861-1891)

Date1876-1880

DimensionsH: 5.1 cm (2 in.); Rim Diam: 4.55 cm (1 25/32 in.); Base Diam: 4.55 cm (1 25/32 in.); W (with handle): 6.2 cm (2 7/16 in.)

MediumOpal non-lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.98

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upright in a female mold of two vertical sections bearing a variation of the Centennial pattern, with a base plate that formed the underside of the base, with a cap ring that formed the top of the rim, by a plain male plunger. The moldmarks are at the center of the handle and opposite the handle, in front, paralleling the staff. No fire-polishing. No pontil mark.

Label TextAt the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876 Adams and Company pleased the children with toy mugs decorated with a bell in crystal (colorless) or opaque white glass. Opal (opaque white or so-called milk glass) became popular in pressed pattern glass about 1880 and continued in popularity until about 1900.Published ReferencesMarsh, Tracy H., The American Story Recorded in Glass, Minneapolis, MN, author, 1962, p. 289, no. 237 (bearing the names of Rutherford B. Hayes and William A. Wheeler, the successful candidates for president and vice-president in 1876 and marked on the base "Adams & Co. Glass Works").

Ferson, Regis F. and Mary Fleming Ferson, Yesterday's Milk Glass Today, Pittsburgh, authors, 1981, p. 171, no. 674.

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. 507, no. 847.