New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.

Tea Plate

Manufacturer Libbey Glass Co. (American, 1888-)

CultureAmerican

Dateca. 1828

MediumPressed glass

DimensionsOverall: 5 7/8 in. (14.9 cm)

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number71.3749

Not on view

DescriptionTea plate of opalescent pressed glass. Heart design with sixteen small "plate rests" in edge design. Running vine design on inside shoulder. Wide experimental cap ring and rope rim. "Pre Lacy". See also GAN.59.37 for clear example.

Published ReferencesCorning Museum, _The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period_. 1954, item 74. R.W. Lee, _Sandwich Glass_, pl. 107, upper right. McKearin, _American Glass_, pl. 141, No. 3. L.W. Watkins, "Early Glass Pressing at Cambridge & Sandwich," _Antiques Magazine_, October 1935, Part I, fig. 3, illustrates plate.