Footed Cream Pitcher

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Footed Cream Pitcher

ManufacturerProbably Boston and Sandwich Glass Works (American, 1826-1888)

Date1830-1840

DimensionsH: 10.8 cm (4 1/4 in.); Rim W: 8.3 cm (3 1/4 in.); Max Rim W: 11.1 cm (4 5/16 in.); Base Diam: 6.6 cm (2 19/32 in.)

MediumColorless glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1967.44

Not on View

DescriptionPressed in a female mold of three vertical sections, with a base plate bearing a pattern of rays surrounding concentric circles to form the base, by a plain male plunger, with a cap ring that formed the undulating rim.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Web, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, MA, author, 1947, pls. 155, bottom center, 157, left.

Watkins, Lura W., "Early Glass Pressing at Cambridge and Sandwich," Antiques, vol. 28, October 1935, p. 152, fig. 2 (Reprint 2, p. 22).

Keyes, Homer Eaton, "Museum Examples of Sandwich Glass," editorial, Antiques, vol. 34, July 1938, pp. 20-22 (Reprint 2, pp. 45-46), p. 21, fig. 4, left.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 363, pl. 163, no. 4.

Keefe, John W., "American Lacy and Pressed Glass in the Toledo Museum of Art," Antiques, vol. 100, July 1971, pp. 104-109 (Reprint 2, pp. 151-156), p. 108, repr. fig. 4.

Roger Dodsworth, in Klein, Dan and Ward Lloyd, eds., The History of Glass, London, Orbis, 1984, repr. p. 192, second from right.

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, MA, Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 2, no. 1038.

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. 362, no. 478.

Exhibition HistoryRose, James H., The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, exh. cat., Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, N.Y., 1954, p. 79, no. 147