Plate, Cup
Object/Artifact
Pressed glass cup plate. Eagle in the center of the plate, the eagle's head is facing left and there is a semblance of a shielf on his breast. he is perched on a branch. A rope ring seperates the eagle from five stars, two olive branches, and the date 1831. A circle of beads is inside a plain table rest. The border is made up of three scrolled medallions flanked by sprigs of leaves, among which are two leaf-like fluer-de-lys. Small sprigs extend out from the table rest and fill the area below the date. The rim is scalloped.
2022.41.160
Genesee Country Village and Museum
Boston and Sandwich Glass Company.
1831
Boston
Massachusetts
United States of America
North America
3-1/2 in
Glass
"A Guide to Sandwich Glass: Blown Tableware, Pressed Cup Plates, and Salts" by Raymond E. Barlow and Joan E. Kaiser, #1426 "American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass" by Jane Shadel Spillman. (pg.139) "American Glass, From the Pages of Antiques, Two Volumes in One" (pg.124)