Plate

Place of OriginNew England

Date1832-1835

DimensionsRim Diam: 6 in. (15.2 cm); Base Diam: 3 9/16 in. (9.0 cm); H: 11/16 in. (1.7 cm)

MediumColorless glass with a yellowish tinge.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1966.73

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upside down over a plain male mold by a female plunger bearing the pattern. Plain foot ring of triangular cross section. Shear mark on patterned underside of base.

Published ReferencesDyer, Walter A., "The Pressed Glassware of Old Sandwich," Antiques, vol. 1, February 1922, p. 60.

Ayer, Rose L., "Six-Inch Glass Tea Plates," Antiques, vol. 20, July 1931, p. 30, fig. 1.

Lee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, MA, author, 1947, pp. 326, 332, pl. 109, top left.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 357, pl. 151, no. 7.

Rose, James H., The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, exh. cat., Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, 1954, p. 89, no. 238.

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. 64, no. 148.

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, MA, Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 3, no. 1686.

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. 370, no. 498.

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