Covered Sugar Bowl

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Object Name: 
Covered Sugar Bowl
Place Made: 
United States, possibly OH, Moscow
Accession Number: 
55.4.236
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 15.2 cm; (a) Sugar Bowl H: 10.8 cm; Rim Diam: 10.7 cm; Foot Diam: 6.6 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1829
Primary Description: 
Covered Sugar Bowl. Transparent light brilliant amethyst glass; blown-three-mold and pattern molded; spreading foot with rough pontil mark applied to oval bowl with galleried rim; domed cover with heavy infolded rim and solid oval finial drawn from same gather and having rough pontil mark; bowl patterned in G II-32 pattern; cover patterned in sixteen-rib mold and expanded with ribs swirling to left.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin Antiques, Source
1955-11-12
Category: 
Early American
Color: 
amethyst
Technique: 
blown three-mold glass
molding
tooling
Material: 
glass

Publications (7)

Mold-Blown Glass: Roman and American (2015) illustrated, p. 9 (fig. 4); BIB# AI100138
Un guide pour la datation de la verrerie de table des annees 1800 a 1940 (2001) illustrated, Fig. 11, p. 185, center; BIB# 96483
Studies in Material Culture Research (2000) illustrated, p. 157, fig. 11; BIB# 71763
Glass Tableware, Bowls and Vases (1982) pl. 132, left; BIB# 22048
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Doubleday edition) (1950) pl. 9, #5, p. 116; BIB# 25299
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Crown Publishers edition) (1950) pl. 9, #5, p. 116; BIB# 76944
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Bonanza Books edition) (1950) pl. 9, #5, p. 116; BIB# 96725