Footed Sugar Bowl and Cover

Manufacturer Boston and Sandwich Glass Works (American, 1826-1888)

Date1835-1850

DimensionsH (with cover): 5 3/16 in. (13.2 cm); H (without cover): 3 17/32 in. (9.0 cm); Rim Diam (bowl): 4 3/4 in. (12.0 cm); Base Diam (bowl): 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm)

MediumDeep teal-blue lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

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

Object number

1953.137

Not on View

DescriptionBowl and cover pressed in the same types of molds and in the same manner as 1969.141, except that the sixteen-petaled floret in the center of the cover is much less well defined.

Published ReferencesRogers, Millard F., Jr., "Stylistic Influences on Nineteenth-Century American Glass," Antiques, vol. 78, July 1960, pp. 57-59 (Reprint 2, pp. 26-28), repr. p. 58, second from bottom, left.

Rogers, Millard F., Jr., "American Glass: 1608-1940, " Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 4, no. 3, Summer 1961, pp. 51-70, repr. p. 66.

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. 62.

Schwartz, Marvin D., Collectors' Guide to Antique American Glass, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1969, repr. p. 112.

Spillman, Jane S., American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Museum of Glass Catalog Series, Corning, N.Y., Corning Museum of Glass, 1981, p. 248, no. 972.

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, Mass., Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 3, no. 1695 (greenish yellow).

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. 366, no. 489.

Exhibition HistoryRose, James H., The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, exh. cat., Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, N.Y., 1954, p. 94, no. 281.