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Goblet

Manufacturer M'Kee and Brothers (American, 1854-1901, 1904-1910)

Place of OriginUnited States

Date1860-1875; possibly later

DimensionsH: 6 1/4 in. (15.95 cm); Rim Diam: 3 7/16 in. (8.75 cm); Base Diam: 3 7/32 in. (8.15 cm)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Granville Price

Object number

1990.58

Not on View

DescriptionEntire goblet pressed upright in a female coggle mold of two vertical sections bearing the Argus pattern, with a plain base plate with a slight concavity in the center and at its edge that formed the underside of the foot, with a cap ring that formed the rim, by a plain male plunger. The two moldmarks extend from the outer edge of the foot across its upper surface, then at a slight diagonal ascend the plain circular base of the stem. No pontil mark.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Early American Pressed Glass, Wellesley Hills, MA, author, 1960, pp. 18-19 (general discussion of this early Argus pattern and a later pattern today usually called thumbprint), form no. 6, pl. 2, bottom left; pl. 11, row 2, middle.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pp. 394, 396, 398, 400, 403, pl. 206, no. 9 (celery), pl. 208, no. 17 (eggcup).

M'Kee and Brothers, M'Kee Victorian Glass: Five Complete Glass Catalogs from 1859/60 to 1871, ed. with intro. and test by Lowell Innes and Jane S. Spillman, Corning, NY, and New York, Corning Museum of Glass in association with Dover, 1981, p. 22, top (repr. of page from M'Kee 1859-60 trade catalogue, top right: Argus goblet, $2.00 a doz.).

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. 466, no. 751.