Covered Sugar Bowl

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Object Name: 
Covered Sugar Bowl
Place Made: 
United States, Eastern MA
Accession Number: 
66.4.62
Dimensions: 
H: 11", D (top): 5 1/2"
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1816-1835
Credit Line: 
Gift of Otto W. Hilbert
Primary Description: 
Colorless lead glass; blown and tooled. Cylindrical bowl with galleried rim; applied and marvered in triple bands below rim and near base of bowl; applied hollow stem containing an English coin [half-crown of George III dated 1816]; applied thick circular foot with rough pontil mark. Cylindrical lid with applied triple bands and applied hollow knob containing a matching coin; flat disk on top with rough pontil mark.

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Department: 
Early Modern; Modern
Provenance: 
Hilbert, Otto, Source
Tilden and Son, Antiques, Source
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
blown, tooled

Publications (2)

New England Glass and Glassmaking (1972) p. 215, fig. 164; BIB# 27280
Recent Important Acquisitions, 9 (1967) illustrated, p. 143, #58; BIB# AI97741