Plate

Place of OriginProbably Midwest

Date1835-1845

DimensionsRim Diam: 7 1/16 in. (17.9 cm); Base Diam: 3 13/16 in. (9.6 cm)

MediumColorless non-lead glass with a very strong green tinge

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1969.202

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upside down over a plain male mold that formed the upper surface by a female plunger bearing the pattern that formed the entire underside of the plate, including the bull's-eyes. Stippling on the base is very faint, like the impressions of a cloth pressed into damp clay. The piece rests on eight bull's-eyes around the edge of the base.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pp. 351-352, pl. 144, no. 1.

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. 65, no. 153.

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, MA, Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 2, no. 1291.

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. 394, no. 558.