Plate

Place of OriginProbably Midwest

Date1830-1840

DimensionsRim Diam: 5 25/32 in. (14.7 cm); Base Diam: 3 5/8 in. (9.3 cm)

MediumColorless glass with a yellowish-green tinge.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1966.55

Not on View

DescriptionPressed, probably upright, in a female mold bearing the pattern by a plain male plunger. Coarse stippling on shoulder; no stippling on base. Thin rounded foot ring. Slight evidence of shear mark on plain interior surface.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, MA, author, 1947, p. 323, pl. 104, top left.

Spillman, Jane S., American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Museum of Glass Catalog Series, Corning, NY, Corning Museum of Glass, 1981, p. 80, no. 204.

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. 393, no. 556.

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Early American Pressed Glass, January 28-March 6, 1966 (no catalog).