Sugar Bowl
Manufacturer: PROBABLY South Boston Flint Glass Works (American, 1813-1827)
Manufacturer: OR New England Glass Company (American, 1818-1888)
Date: 1820-1830
Dimensions:
H with cover: 14.0 cm (5 1/2 in.); Bowl H: 10.3 cm (4 1/16 in.); Rim L: 11.2 cm (4 13/32 in.); Rim W: 8.7 cm (3 7/16 in.); Base L: 9.0 cm (3 9/16 in.); Base W: 6.9 cm (2 23/32 in.)
Medium: Colorless glass.
Place of Origin: United States
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1953.14
Label Text:While the reputation of a flint glassworks might rest upon the quality of its luxury cut glass, its ultimate success probably depended upon its goods made to appeal to middle class taste and middle class pocketbooks. American glassmakers made imitation luxury cut ware for the middle market by perfecting a process of blowing a molten gather of glass into a multi-part, hinged mold that determined the glass object’s shape, size, and pattern. Designs could be modeled after the geometric patterns of cut glass thereby satisfying stylistic demands, while the use of molds assured a uniformity and speed of production that made the ware affordable.
DescriptionBowl: blown, by the blow-over and crack-off process, in a mold of two, or perhaps four, vertical sections and a base plate bearing a series of 43 rays radiating from an irregular oval in the center to the edge. Rim ground and polished. No pontil mark. Cover: blown in the same manner as the bowl in a similar two-piece mold. Lower edge ground and polished. Applied finial formed in a finely ribbed dip mold, then twisted to produce a swirl pattern. No pontil mark.
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