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Plate, Cup
Object/Artifact
Cup plate, pressed glass. shallow circular bowl, sides curving to flaring rim with small round serrations from narrow table-ring; inner surface smooth, outer with peacock feather and scrolled-eye design on stippled background: on sides, band of peacock feathers with ringed eye and alternate stippled and diamond feather; on base, diamond-scrolled eyes around bead circle with ringed dot at center.
2022.41.159
Genesee Country Village and Museum
Boston and Sandwich Glass Company
1830 - 1840
Boston
Massachusetts
United States of America
North America
3-1/4 in
https://www.cmog.org/artwork/sauce-dish?search=collection%3A6c79dd82c62887c99e09e3ec8a16ae73&page=0 "American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass" by Jane Shadel Spillman. (pg.84)