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Plate

Manufacturer Gillinder and Sons (American, 1861-1930)

Date1875-1880

Dimensions1 3/16 × 10 7/8 × 6 7/8 in. (3 × 27.6 × 17.5 cm)

Mediumnonlead glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mildred Crisp Ledbetter in memory of Evva Rochelle Crisp

Object number

1970.70

Not on View

DescriptionColorless. Pressed upside down over a male mold bearing the Centennial pattern and the inscriptions, with a cap ring that formed the edge of the rim, its underside, the shoulder, and the side and bottom of the foot ring, by a female plunger, plain except for the pattern on the twig handles. No fire-polishing. No pontil mark.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Early American Pressed Glass, Wellesley Hills, MA, author, 1960, pp. 349-350 (Centennial, or so-called liberty bell, pattern), form no. 10b, pls. 58, 113, 117 (various forms)

Revi, Albert C., American Pressed Glass and Figure Bottles, New York and Toronto, Nelson, 1964, pp. 167-168

Marsh, Tracy H., The American Story Recorded in Glass, Minneapolis, MN, author, 1962, p. 289, no. 236

Spillman, Jane S., American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Museum of Glass Catalog Series, Corning, N.Y., Corning Museum of Glass, 1981, pp. 288-289, nos. 1132-1133

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. 505, no. 842.