Plate

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Object Name: 
Plate
Place Made: 
United States, New England
Accession Number: 
68.4.115
Dimensions: 
H: 4.3 cm, D: 30.6 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1825-1830
Primary Description: 
Colorless, lead glass; pressed. Circular; arched, scalloped edge with groups of five small scallops alternating with one large scallop; center with large equal-armed cross filled with diamonds.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern; Modern
Provenance: 
George Abraham & Gilbert May, Former Collection
Esterly, Louise S., Source
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
pressing

Exhibitions (2)

Masterpieces of American Glass
Venue(s)
Museum of Applied Arts 1990-07-27 through 1990-09-02
State Hermitage Museum 1990-09-15 through 1990-10-21
Museum of the State Institute of Glass 1990-11-02 through 1991-01-04
The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1954-06-21 through 1954-09-15
 

Publications (4)

Masterpieces of American Glass (1990) illustrated, pp. 31, 93, pl. 47; BIB# 33046
Shedevry amerikanskogo stekla: iz kollektsij Muzeia Stekla v Korninge i Muzeia Iskusstva v Tolido (1990) illustrated, pp. 59-60, #44; BIB# 34475
American and European Pressed Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1981) illustrated, p. 43, #72; BIB# 30457
The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period 1825-1850 (1954) illustrated, p. 69, #67, pl. VI; BIB# 27822