Plate

Place of OriginEastern United States

Date1835-1850

DimensionsRim Diam: 5 31/32 in. (15.1 cm); Base Diam: 3 7/16 in. (8.7 cm)

MediumColorless glass with a grayish tinge, not well fined.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1966.64

Not on View

DescriptionPressed, possibly upright, in a female mold bearing the pattern by a plain male plunger. Slightly rounded plain foot ring.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, MA, author, 1947, pp. 332-333, pl. 110, 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. 82, no. 230.

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. 381, no. 524.

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