Sugar Bowl and Cover

Object Name: 
Sugar Bowl and Cover

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Object Name: 
Sugar Bowl and Cover
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, NY, Harrisburg
Accession Number: 
50.4.455
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 18 cm; Body H: 13.25 cm, Diam (max): 13.5 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1841-1843
Primary Description: 
Sugar Bowl and Cover. Non-lead, aquamarine; free-blown with applied and tooled decoration; large spheroid body with lily-pad Type II and III, contracted below narrow shallow galleried rim; applied sloping circular foot with rough pontil mark, applied opposing small hoop-handles with short ends. Small high dome cover with short plain flaring rim and with small ball knob from same gather and with pontil mark on top.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin, George S. (b. 1874), Source
1922
to
1950-07-31
Curtice, Della M., Former Collection
1922
Category: 
Early American
Color: 
aqua
Technique: 
glassblowing
applied decoration
tooling
applied
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (1)

Loan exhibition of eighteenth and early nineteenth century furniture & glass; for the benefit of the National Council of Girl Scouts, inc.
Venue(s)
American Art Galleries 1929-09-25 through 1929-10-09