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Toy Plate

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

Date1835-1855

DimensionsRim Diam: 5.9 cm (2 5/16 in.); Base Diam: 3.5 cm (1 3/8 in.)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1972.49

Not on View

DescriptionPressed, probably upright, in a one-piece female mold bearing the pattern by a plain male plunger. Beaded foot ring. Indistinct shear mark on plain upper surface.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Web, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, MA, author, 1947, pp. 276-277, pl. 81, center right

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. 121, nos. 473, 476

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. 158-159, nos. 564-568

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, MA, Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 1, no. 461

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. 359, no. 473.