Covered Sugar Bowl

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Object Name: 
Covered Sugar Bowl
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, probably OH, Zanesville
Accession Number: 
55.4.70
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 15.8 cm; (a) Sugar Bowl H: 9.9 cm; Rim Diam: 13 cm; Foot Diam: 8.9 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1815-1830
Primary Description: 
Covered Sugar Bowl. Transparent light golden amber glass with one large "blowing spiral" on body; wear marks at base; pattern molded and expanded; bowl with sides tapering downwards to hollow ring foot drawn out of same gather, very rough pontil mark, galleried rim above contracted neck-like part; double-dome cover with infolded rim and ball finial drawn out of same gather; the whole object patterned in twenty-four-rib mold and expanded with ribs slightly swirling on cover.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern; Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin Antiques, Source
1955-11-12
Category: 
Early American
Color: 
amber
gold
Technique: 
mold-blowing
Material: 
glass

Publications (12)

The Corning Museum of Glass and the Finger Lakes Region (1993) illustrated, p. 29, #46; BIB# 35681
Treasures from The Corning Museum of Glass (1992) illustrated, p. 101, #96; BIB# 35679
Masterpieces of Glass: A World History From The Corning Museum of Glass (1990) illustrated, pp. 188-189, pl. 86; BIB# 33819
A Short History of Glass (1990 edition) (1990) illustrated, p. 72-74, #64; BIB# 33211
Vetri del Settecento e dell'ottocento (1985) illustrated, p. 71; BIB# 32949
Glass Tableware, Bowls and Vases (1982) pl. 117; BIB# 22048
Masterpieces of Glass: A World History from The Corning Museum of Glass (1980) pp. 188-189, pl. 86; BIB# 20953
A Short History of Glass (1980 edition) (1980) illustrated, p. 66, #63; BIB# 21161
Zanesville Glass (1960) illustrated, pp. 112-113, fig. 1; BIB# AI57029
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Doubleday edition) (1950) pl. 3, #1, p. 36; BIB# 25299
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Bonanza Books edition) (1950) pl. 3, #1, p. 36; BIB# 96725
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Crown Publishers edition) (1950) pl. 3, #1, p. 36; BIB# 76944