Plate

Place of OriginMidwest, probably Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

DatePossibly 1830-1835

DimensionsRim Diam: 6 in. (15.3 cm); Base Diam: 3 3/8 in. (8.7 cm)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1967.60

Not on View

DescriptionPressed, probably upside down, over a plain male mold by a female plunger bearing the pattern and also forming the rim of alternating large and small scallops, apparently without a cap ring. Plain foot ring of triangular cross section.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 142, no. 2.

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. 408, no. 597.

Exhibition HistoryRose, James H., The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, exh. cat., Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, 1954, p. 110, no. 390.