Covered Sugar Bowl

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Object Name: 
Covered Sugar Bowl
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, New England
Accession Number: 
68.4.547
Dimensions: 
(a) H(with cover): 14.5 cm, (without): 9.9 cm, D: 12.4 cm; (b) H: 5.3 cm, D: 11.1 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1830-1840
Primary Description: 
(a) Colorless, lead glass; pressed. Cylindrical shape; galleried rim formed of small trefoil-like ornaments; stippled body with design of three baskets of flowers above double-headed eagles with a shield-body, alternating with three acanthus leaves; round high foot edged with scallops; (b) conical lid; stippled; six vertical acanthus leaves; mushroom knob.

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Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Esterly, Louise S., Source
Woodsum Collection, Former Collection
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
pressing

Publications (3)

Un guide pour la datation de la verrerie de table des annees 1800 a 1940 (2001) illustrated, Fig. 20, p. 194, front left; BIB# 96483
Studies in Material Culture Research (2000) illustrated, p. 163, fig. 20; BIB# 71763
American and European Pressed Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1981) illustrated, p. 45, #77; BIB# 30457