Plate

Place of OriginNew England

Date1835-1845

DimensionsH: 3/4 in. (1.9 cm); Rim Diam: 6 in. (15.2 cm); Base Diam: 3 9/16 in. (9.0 cm)

MediumDeep sapphire-blue lead glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1969.167

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upside down over a plain male mold by a female plunger bearing the rinceau pattern on the shoulder, and acorns and oak leaves on the base. Thin 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. 326-332, pl. 109, bottom 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. 9.

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. 83, no. 192.

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, pp. 64, no. 149, 150.

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. 371, no. 499, colorpl. 499, p. 253.

Exhibition HistoryRose, James H., The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, exh. cat., Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, 1954, p. 78, no. 143.