Footed Sugar Bowl and Cover

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Footed Sugar Bowl and Cover

ManufacturerProbably American Flint Glass Works (American, 1764 -1774)

Place of Originprobably Manheim, Pennsylvania, United States; possibly England

Date1769-1774

Dimensionswith cover: 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm)
bowl: 3 3/4 × 4 7/16 × 4 7/16 × 2 1/2 in. (9.6 × 11.2 × 11.2 × 6.3 cm)

Mediumlead glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1917.266

On View

Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion (2444 Monroe Street), Glass Pavilion Gallery, 3

DescriptionDeep blue lead glass. Bowl: blown in a two-piece part-size mold patterned with ten rows of 16 diamonds. Expanded and tooled to shape. The bowl is plain for almost 0.6 cm (1/4 in.) below the rim. Short, sloping foot applied and tooled. Slightly concave base. Rough, solid pontil mark. Cover: low, domed cover patterned in the same mold, then expanded and tooled to shape. Wide folded flange tooled to end in an almost vertical section extending downward about 1.5 cm (5/8 in.). Applied finial patterned with 20 twisted ribs. Rough, solid pontil mark inside cover.

Published ReferencesGeorge W. Stevens, "President Libbey's Recent Gifts," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, February 1921, repr. p. [4].

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 88, pl. 31.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1950; rev. ed., 1966, p. 20, pl. 2.

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. 68, no. 3, colorpl. 3, p. 73.