Plate
Plate
ManufacturerProbably
Boston and Sandwich Glass Works
(American, 1826-1888)
Date1840-1855
DimensionsRim Diam: 5 5/16 in. (13.5 cm)
MediumDeep amethyst lead glass.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth
Object number
1967.26
Not on View
DescriptionPressed, probably upright, in a female mold bearing the pattern by a plain male plunger. 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. 285, pl. 84, top right.
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. 6.
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. 96, no. 277.
The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, MA, Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 1, no. 695 (amber).
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. 416, no. 619.
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