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
Not on view
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.
Libbey Glass Co.
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