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Goblet

Manufacturer Fort Pitt Glass Works (American)

Manufacturer James B. Lyon and Company (American, 1848-1891)

Manufacturer New England Glass Company (American, 1818-1888)

Date1850-1865

DimensionsH: 6 11/16 in. (17.0 cm); Rim Diam: 3 9/16 in. (9.05 cm); Base Diam: 3 21/32 in. (9.3 cm)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Granville Price

Object number

1990.66

Not on View

DescriptionEntire goblet pressed upright in a female mold of three vertical sections bearing the Palace (so-called waffle-and-thumbprint) pattern, with a cap ring that formed the rim, in conjunction with a male plug that formed a hollow cylinder at the lower end of the stem from which the foot was formed by the Magoun and Sweeney patent methods. The moldmarks are partly obliterated on the upper surface of the foot, then rise vertically, following the edges of the hexagonal stem, then upward through three of the V grooves on the bowl to the lower edge of the cap ring. Polished pontil mark.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Early American Pressed Glass, Wellesley Hills, MA, author, 1960, pp. 55-56 (Palace, or waffle-and-thumbprint, pattern), form no. 7, pl. 10, row 3, no. 2; pl. 26, top left.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pp. 394, 397, 401, 409, pl. 206, no. 11 (decanter with applied handle).

Innes, Lowell, Pittsburgh Glass, 1791-1891: A History and Guide for Collectors, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1976, pp. 51, 304, 486, fig. 328, right side (repr. of Curling, Robertson and Company advertisement from Pittsburgh-Allegheny Directory for 1856-57), fig. 329, right center (spoon holder) (repr. of page from James B. Lyon and Company 1861 catalogue, p. 14).

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. 260, nos. 1036 (lamp), 1037 (eggcup).

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. 467, no. 752.