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Plate, Cup

Object/Artifact

Pressed glass cup plate. The center is made up of a seven-petalred rosette encircled by twelve dotted beads. The while is surrounded by a circle from which radiate three diamond darts. The three arcs have a sawtooth or zigzag pattern which is replaced by a chain of beads on a variant. The remaining space on the bottom of the plate is filled with three diamons that have diamonds within. The backgroun is stippled to a narrow rope table rest. The border patten is made up of four brackets, each enclosing four diamonds over which is a pair of scrolled leaves. Two concentric circles of stipples surround the border just inside a rim of fifty-eight scallops.

2022.41.139

Genesee Country Village and Museum

Boston and Sandwhich Glass Company

1835 - 1845

Boston

Massachusetts

United States of America

North America

3-3/8 in

Glass

"A Guide to Sandwich Glass: Blown Tableware, Pressed Cup Plates, and Salts" by Raymond E. Barlow and Joan E. Kaiser, #1378.

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