Object Number 1978.0125.059

Object Name

Plate (Cup plate)

Category

Glass

Credit Line/Donor

Gift of Ladies' Hermitage Association

Creator (Role)

Fort Pitt Glass Works (Maker)
1827-1900

Place of Origin

Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

Date

1835-1845

Materials

Glass (lead)

Techniques

Pressed

Dimensions (inches)

0.591 (H) , 3.685 (Diam)

Dimensions (centimeters)

1.5 (H) , 9.36 (Diam)

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Lee, Ruth Webb & Rose, James H. 1948 American Glass Cup Plates. 445.
• Cup plate pattern listed: No. 211, pl. 42, p. 167; Fort Pitt Glass Works, extremely rare
[Book] Spillman, Jane Shadel. 1981 American and European Pressed Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass.
• Related cup plate, same pattern: no. 381, p. 123; R.B. Curling & Sons, Fort Pitt Glass Works, Pittsburgh, ca. 1835- 1845, extremely rare