Creamer and Sugar

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Object Name: 
Creamer and Sugar
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, MA, Cambridge
Accession Number: 
73.4.19
Dimensions: 
See Individual Records
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1837
Credit Line: 
Gift of Marion Pike
Web Description: 
This pair was made as a wedding gift for Thyrza Barnes and George Leighton.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Pike, Marion, Source
Pike, Mary May Leighton, Former Collection
Leighton, John H., Former Collection
Leighton, Thyrza Barnes, Former Collection
Color: 
colorless
Technique: 
blown glass
mold-blown glass
pattern-molded
Material: 
glass

Description

Primary Description: 
Colorless, lead glass; blown, mold-blown, pattern-molded. (A) Waisted cylindrical shape; high lip with closely-spaced threading; opposite lip an applied, three-lobed handle crimped at bottom; two adjacent applied rings and molded gadrooning on lower half of body; bowl attached by three wafers to short stem; flat circular foot; rough pontil. (Ba) Waisted cylindrical shape; galleried rim with closely spaced threading below; two applied rings and molded gadrooning cover lower part of body; three wafers connect bowl to short stem; flat circular foot; rough pontil. (Bb) Bell-shaped with swirled, pointed red knob attached with two wafers to gadrooned body; one applied ring near folded rim.

Exhibitions (1)

New England Glass Company, 1818-1888
Venue(s)
Toledo Museum of Art 1963 through 1963

Publications (4)

Shedevry amerikanskogo stekla: iz kollektsij Muzeia Stekla v Korninge i Muzeia Iskusstva v Tolido (1990) illustrated, pp. 50-51, #27; BIB# 34475
Glass Tableware, Bowls and Vases (1982) pl. 121; BIB# 22048
The New England Glass Company, 1818-1888 (1963) p. 62, #14; BIB# 27488
Cambridge Glass, 1818 to 1888 (1930) illustrated, p. 73, pl. 29a; BIB# 25687

Objects in Set (2)

Creamer
Artist:New England Glass Company
Date:1837
Accession Number:73.4.19 A
Covered Sugar Bowl
Artist:New England Glass Company
Date:1837
Accession Number:73.4.19 B