Sugar Bowl and Cover

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Sugar Bowl and Cover

Place of OriginProbably Scandinavia; probably Norway

Date1800-1830

DimensionsH: 6 13/32 in. (16.3 cm); H (bowl): 3 31/32 in. (10.1 cm); Rim Diam (bowl): 4 3/16 in. (10.6 cm); Base Diam (bowl): 2 17/32 in. (6.4 cm)

Mediumglass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number

1923.17

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DescriptionDeep sapphire-blue lead glass. Body: blown and tooled to ovoid form with galleried rim. Applied tooled foot. Cover: blown and finished by tooling, with a solid finial and a flat shoulder terminating in a flanged, or reverse, galleried rim that fits within the gallery of the bowl. Lead glass; blown and tooled, applied foot.

Published ReferencesWilson, 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. 787, no. 1334.

Comparative ReferencesSee also Hunter, Frederick William, Stiegel Glass, Cambridge, Mass., Houghton Mifflin, 1914; reprint, with introduction by Helen McKearin, New York, Dover, 1950.