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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).