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 number71.3747

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DescriptionTea plate of clear pressed glass. Heart design and bottom edge of sixteen small plate rests. Running vine design on inside shoulder. Wide experimental cap ring. Rope rim-Pre-lacy. See also GAN.59.36 for opalescent example.

Published ReferencesR.W. Lee, _Sandwich Glass_, pl. 107, upper right. Corning Museum, _The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period_, 1825-1850, 1954, item 74. McKearin, _American Glass_, pl. 141-143. Lura Woodside Watkins, "Early Glass Pressing at Cambridge & Sandwich, _Antiques Magazine_, Oct. 1935, Part I, fig. 3 illustrates plate.