Pyrex Custard Cup

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Object Name: 
Pyrex Custard Cup
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, NY
Accession Number: 
96.4.175
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 5.1 cm; Rim Diam: 9 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1915-1919
Credit Line: 
Gift of Jerry E. Wright
Primary Description: 
Pyrex Custard Cup. Colorless with yellowish cast, non-lead borosilicate glass; mold-pressed. Small circular dish with deep walls tapering in towards narrow base, narrow inset flange on inside of thick curved rim, outside of rim has a minute extruded edge, flattened base molded with inset, slightly raised/circular foot; overall mold and chill marks; molded in low relief circle at center of base (reading through interior): interlocked CG monogram/PYREX/interlocked CG monogram; molded in low relief on underside of rim: 4237.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Jerry E. Wright (American, b. 1932), Former Collection
1996-06
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
pressing
Material: 
borosilicate glass
Inscription: 
interlocked CG monogram/PYREX/interlocked CG monogram/4237
Trademark
: 
Stamped center of base

Publications (3)

The Corning Museum of Glass: A Decade of Glass Collecting 1990-1999 (2000) illustrated, pp. 76-77, #129; BIB# 65446
Recent Important Acquisitions, 39 (1997) illustrated, pp. 182-183, #47; BIB# AI5243
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1996 (1997) illustrated, p. 41; BIB# AI95179