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Plate, Cup
Object/Artifact
Pressed glass cup plate. A three-masted frigate is in the center of the plate. The vessel is surrounded by beads, outside of which are scrolls and leaves enclosing two shields and two stars. The table rest is plain. On the border, two stylized shields enclose a five-pointed star. Four more stars and scroled leaves complete the pattern to a scalloped rim.
2022.41.156
Genesee Country Village and Museum
1830 - 1845
Boston
Massachusetts
United States of America
North America
3-3/4 in
Glass
"A Guide to Sandwich Glass: Blown Tableware, Pressed Cup Plates, and Salts" by Raymond E. Barlow and Joan E. Kaiser, #1418 "American Glass, From the Pages of Antiques, Two Volumes in One" (pg.121-122) "American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass" by Jane Shadel Spillman. (pg.135)