Covered Sugar Bowl

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Object Name: 
Covered Sugar Bowl
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, probably NY, Vernon
Accession Number: 
55.4.159
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 21.9 cm; (a) Sugar Bowl H: 14.3 cm; (a) Rim Diam: 10.6 cm; (a) Foot Diam: 8.8 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1810-1840
Primary Description: 
Covered Sugar Bowl. Transparent heavy light bluish-aquamarine glass with minute and small bubbles, and crack-like blowing spiral; wear marks; free blown, with applied and tooled decoration; flat foot with pontil mark, stem with solid knop, spherical body contracted below galleried rim; high domed cover with flaring rim and solid knop-finial with pontil mark; lower body and dome of cover have superimposed gather tooled into heavy swagging.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern; Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin Antiques, Source
1955-11-12
Color: 
aquamarine
Technique: 
glassblowing
applied decoration
tooling
Material: 
glass