Digital Collections

Plate, Cup

Object/Artifact

Pressed glass cup plate. Image of an eagle in the middle, holding on to a ribbon with the text "Fort Pitt" in it's beak. The background has a total of 24 stars. A shield covers the body of the eagle, in its talons are arrows and an olive branch. The edge is scalooped and the border is a peacock feather design

2022.41.181

Genesee Country Village and Museum

1821 - 1836

Pittsburgh

Pennsylvania

United States of America

North America

3-9/16 in

Glass

"American Glass, From the Pages of Antiques, Two Volumes in One" (pg. 125) "American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass" by Jane Shadel Spillman. (pg.141) "American Glass: The Fine Art of Glassmaking in America" by Geo and Helen McKearin (plate 180).

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