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Plate, Cup
Object/Artifact
Pressed glass cup plate. Portrait of Henry Clay facing left. lettering and star combine to make up the central pattern, enclosed by a rope ring and plain table rest resembles a chain of Princess Feather (Prince Feather). On the border, four fine diamond shields are flanked by fruit-filled cornucopia. Seven cornucopia have an oval fruit on the side away from the shield. The rim is scalloped.
2022.41.142
Genesee Country Village and Museum
Boston and Sandwich Glass Company
1832 - 1852
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, #1413 "American Glass, From the Pages of Antiques, Two Volumes in One" (pg.122-123) "American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass" by Jane Shadel Spillman. (pg.132)