Plate

Place of OriginUnited States, possibly the Midwest

Date1840-1850

DimensionsRim Diam: 5 7/8 in. (15.0 cm); Base Diam: 3 7/16 in. (8.8 cm)

MediumSo-called clambroth, or moonstone, lead glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1969.218

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upside down over a plain male mold by a female plunger bearing the pattern, with a cap ring that formed the scalloped rim. Foot ring of triangular cross section.

Published ReferencesSpillman, 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. 61, no. 139.

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, MA, Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 1, no. 692.

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. 368, no. 493.