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

DescriptionBowl: blown in a one-piece dip mold patterned with 8 vertical ribs. Expanded and finished by tooling. Cover: blown in a one-piece mold patterned with 12 vertical ribs. Expanded and finished by tooling. Inward-folded rim. Sloping foot applied and finished by tooling. Rough, solid pontil mark.

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