Cup Plate

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

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

Date1827-1830

DimensionsRim Diam: 8.7 cm (3 7/16 in.); Base Diam: 4.6 cm (1 7/8 in.)

MediumThick colorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Kenneth M. Wilson

Object number

1991.45

Not on View

DescriptionPressed, probably by a bench press, upside down over a male mold, plain except for contiguous oval indentations that formed a rope pattern on the upper edge of the rim, by a female plunger bearing the pattern. The thick edge of the plate was also formed by the male mold. Shear mark on bottom.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Web, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, Mass., author, 1947, p. 212, pl. 56, bottom left, pl. 63, bottom center (with fragment excavated at the Boston and Sandwich factory site).

Lee, Ruth Webb and James H. Rose, American Glass Cup Plates: The First Classified Check List and Historical Treatise on the Subject, 3d ed., Northboro, Mass., authors, 1948, p. 73, no. 22.

Wilson, Kenneth M., New England Glass and Glassmaking, Old Sturbridge Village Book, New York, Crowell, 1972, pp. 254-255; p. 256, fig. 215A, lower left.

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. 112, no. 337.

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. 298, no. 337.