Footed Sugar Bowl and Cover

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Footed Sugar Bowl and Cover

Place of Originpossibly Zanesville or Mantua, Ohio, United States

Date1815-1830

Dimensionsbowl with cover: 6 1/4 in. (15.9 cm)
bowl: 3 3/4 × 3 7/8 in. (9.6 × 9.8 cm)
cover: 3 × 4 in. (7.6 × 10.2 cm)

Mediumnon-lead glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.265A-B

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DescriptionDeep purplish blue non-lead glass. Bowl: blown and patterned in a dip mold with 24 vertical ribs. Removed and twisted and reinserted in the mold to create a broken-swirl pattern to the left. Blown, expanded, and tooled to shape. Slightly irregular circular foot tooled from an applied gather of the same glass. Faint rough pontil mark. Cover: though somewhat brighter in appearance, appears to be the same glass. Blown and patterned, probably in a three-piece mold with 24 petal flutes in the bottom section and two vertical sections completing a lateral row of 10 half diamonds with an indeterminate number of rows of 10 full diamonds in the upper section. A tooled, double-knop finial applied to the upper end of the petal flutes and cracked off.

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1950; rev. ed., 1966, pl. 31 (sugar bowl blown of light yellow-green glass patterned in a 15-diamond mold that is the same form as this sugar bowl, its cover also domed but of a different form, and patterned in a 16-rib mold and expanded into wide-spaced vertical ribbing).

Rogers, Millard F., Jr., "The Story of American Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 9, no. 3, Autumn 1966, pp. 51-70; rev. and reprinted as a Toledo Museum handbook, repr. p. 65, The Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1969, repr. p. 89.

McKearin, Helen A., and Kenneth M. Wilson, American Bottles and Flasks and Their Ancestry, New York, Crown, 1978, pp. 121-123, 343-348.

Wilson, Kenneth M., American Glass, 1760-1930: The Toledo Museum of Art, New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Toledo Museum of Art, [Lanham, Md.]: National Book Network [distributor], c1994; 2 v. (879 p.): ill. (some col.); 32 cm., 1994, p. 151, no. 148.