Possible maker
Brooklyn Glass Works
(active 1823 - 1868)
Possible Original Owner
Abigail Cornell Corse
(1776 - 1854)
Possible Original Owner
Angeline Corse Evans
(1847 – 1909)
Plate
mid-nineteenth century
Place made, possiblyEngland
Place made, possiblyNorth America
Glass
Overall: 1 1/4 x 9 1/4 in. ( 3.2 x 23.5 cm )
Gift of Lena Cadwalader Evans
1936.703
According to the accession records, this object belonged to either Abigail Cornell (1766-1854) who married New York leather merchant Israel Corse in 1810, or to Angeline Burr, wife of Morris Ketchum (1796-1880).
DescriptionColorless cut lead glass plate; circular form with curved sides, scalloped rim and flat bottom; rim cut with strawberry diamonds and fan motifs, sloping sides cut with panels, bottom cut with square strawberry diamonds.ClassificationsGLASS
