Footed Sugar Bowl and Cover

Place of OriginPittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Date1815-1840

DimensionsH (with cover): 19.5 cm (7 11/16 in.); H (without cover): 13.7 cm (5 13/32 in.); Rim Diam: 11.4 cm (4 1/2 in.); Base Diam: 7.6 cm (3 in.)

MediumAmethyst lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1948.47A-B

On View

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

Published ReferencesMcKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, pp. 138-141, pl. 52, no. 2.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1950; rev. ed., 1966, pp. 65-73, pl. 27, no. 1.

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. 64.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1969, repr. p. 87.

Innes, Lowell, Pittsburgh Glass, 1791-1891: A History and Guide for Collectors, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1976, pp. 181-184, pl. 162, no. 2; pl. 163, no. 3.

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. 193, no. 177, colorpl. 177, p.155