Plate

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Object Name: 
Plate
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
possibly United States, NY, Redford
possibly United States, NY, Redwoodord
Accession Number: 
55.4.165
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 3 cm, Rim Diam: 19 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1831-1850
Primary Description: 
Plate. Transparent pale aquamarine glass; free blown with applied decoration; flat plate with rough pontil mark, spreading to heavy outfolded rim; on outside a band of superimposed decoration tooled into lily-pad Type II (McKearin, American Glass, 1948, p. 27).

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin Antiques, Source
1955-11-12
Category: 
Early American
Color: 
aquamarine
Technique: 
glassblowing
applied decoration
Material: 
glass

Publications (5)

Un guide pour la datation de la verrerie de table des annees 1800 a 1940 (2001) illustrated, Fig. 8, pl 182, front; BIB# 96483
Studies in Material Culture Research (2000) illustrated, p.154, fig. 8; BIB# 71763
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Doubleday edition) (1950) pl. 24, #2; pp. 168-169; BIB# 25299
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Crown Publishers edition) (1950) pl. 24, #2; pp. 168-169; BIB# 76944
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Bonanza Books edition) (1950) pl. 24, #2; pp. 168-169; BIB# 96725