Plate by Challinor, Taylor and Company

Medium

Pressed purple marble glass

Dimensions

Diam. 10 3/8 in. (26.4 cm)

Classification

Plate

Culture

American

Department

The American Wing

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946

Accession Number

46.140.699

About the Artist

Challinor, Taylor and Company · 18661891

Challinor, Taylor and Company was an American pressed glass manufacturer founded in 1866 and based in Tarentum, Pennsylvania, a community along the Allegheny River that was home to several of the nineteenth century's most innovative glassmakers. The firm operated until 1891, when it was absorbed into the United States Glass Company as Factory C — part of the great industrial consolidation that res...

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