Footed Sugar Bowl and Cover
Manufacturer: Union Flint Glass Works (American, 1826-1844)
Date: 1815-1840
Dimensions:
H (with cover): 20.1 cm (7 29/32 in.); H (without cover): 14.9 cm (5 7/8 in.); Rim Diam: 12.3 cm (4 13/16 in.); Base Diam: 10.3 cm (4 1/16 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: 1985.40A-B
DescriptionBowl: blown and finished by tooling. Applied tooled solid stem with bulbous medial knop. Applied tooled foot. Inner and outer edges of rim serrated. Bowl cut above with a band of short, arched panels and below with a band of printies with blaze alternating with strawberry diamonds with fans above and a single horizontal line below. Underside of foot cut with a 16-pointed star. Cover: blown and finished by tooling. Cut with a band of motifs related to the printies and strawberry diamonds on bowl. Top edge of rim of cover slightly cut and semipolished.
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