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Cake Plate

Manufacturer Portland Glass Company (American, 1863-1873)

Date1865-1873

DimensionsH: 3.7 cm (1 15/32 in.); Max W (with handles): 27.0 cm (10 5/8 in.); Base Diam: 12.25 cm (4 13/16 in.)

MediumColorless soda-lime glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of John Kobacker and Cathleen G. Chapin-Kobacker

Object number

1978.45

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upright in a one-piece female mold bearing the Dahlia pattern, with a cap ring that formed the upper edge and top of rim, by a plain male plunger. No fire-polishing. No pontil mark.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Early American Pressed Glass, Wellesley Hills, Mass., author, 1960, pp.411-412 (Dahlia pattern), pl. 129, bottom left.

Swan, Frank H., Portland Glass, Des Moines, Iowa, Wallace-Homestead, 1939, pp. 63-64, 90-92, top.

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. 494, no. 819.