Sugar Bowl
Manufacturer: Possibly Providence Flint Glass Works (American, 1831-1833)
Date: 1831-1833
Dimensions:
H (with cover): 14.4 cm (5 21/32 in.); H (without cover): 9.45 cm (3 23/32 in.); Rim Diam: 12.5 cm (4 15/16); Base Diam (bowl): 6.9 cm (2 23/32 in.); Max Diam (lid): 11.3 cm (4 7/16 in.)
Medium: Deep cobalt-blue glass; pressed.
Place of Origin: Possibly Providence, Rhode Island
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth
Object number: 1968.57
DescriptionBowl: pressed upright in a female mold of three vertical sections bearing the pattern of three double-headed eagles, each surmounted by a basket of flowers and fruit, with an acanthus leaf separating the eagles, the scalloped foot, and the leaf or tongue motif around the rim, including its top surface, with a base plate that formed the bottom of the foot and hollow base, decorated with a series of triangular cross-section rays terminating on the underside of the base in a ring of dots surrounded by a ring of diamonds whose points are oriented between the dots, by a plain male plunger. Cover: pressed, apparently upside down, in a one-piece female mold bearing the pattern for the six acanthus leaves, in conjunction with a female mold of two vertical sections that formed the mushroom-knopped finial, by a plain male plunger.
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