Covered Sugar Bowl

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Object Name: 
Covered Sugar Bowl
Place Made: 
United States, probably New England
Accession Number: 
55.4.282
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 14.5 cm; (a) Sugar Bowl H: 10.9 cm; (a) Rim Diam: 13 cm; (a) Foot Diam: 9.2 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1820-1835
Primary Description: 
Covered Sugar Bowl. Clear glass; pattern molded and blown-three-mold; pedestal foot with wide folded rim and rough pontil mark, cup-shaped bowl with galleried rim; domed cover with wide flaring and folded rim and with flat-topped button finial having pontil mark; foot patterned in twenty-four-rib mold and expanded in vertical ribbing, body patterned in G III-20 pattern, cover patterned in G II-22 pattern.

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Department: 
Early Modern; Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin Antiques, Source
1955-11-12
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
mold-blowing
blown three-mold glass
Material: 
glass

Publications (9)

Mold-Blown Glass: Roman and American (2015) illustrated, p. 9 (fig. 4); BIB# AI100138
American Antiques and Collectibles (2001) illustrated, p. 272; BIB# 76353
Un guide pour la datation de la verrerie de table des annees 1800 a 1940 (2001) illustrated, Fig. 11, p. 185, right; BIB# 96483
Studies in Material Culture Research (2000) illustrated, p. 157, fig. 11; BIB# 71763
A Catalogue of American Antiques (1990) illustrated, p. 100; BIB# 69239
Glass Tableware, Bowls and Vases (1982) pl. 131; BIB# 22048
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Doubleday edition) (1950) pl. 34, #5, pp. 188-189; BIB# 25299
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Crown Publishers edition) (1950) pl. 34, #5, pp. 188-189; BIB# 76944
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Bonanza Books edition) (1950) pl. 34, #5, pp. 188-189; BIB# 96725