Sugar Bowl and Cover

Manufacturer New England Glass Company (American, 1818-1888)

Date1865-1875

DimensionsH (with cover): 17.0 cm (6 11/16 in.); H (without cover): 11.2 cm (4 13/32 in.); Rim Diam (bowl): 10.5 cm (4 1/8 in.); Base Diam: 9.25 cm (3 21/32 in.)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number

1959.28

Not on View

DescriptionBowl: pressed upright in a female mold of two vertical sections bearing the Huber pattern, with a base plate that formed the lower edge and domed underside of the foot, by a plain male plunger. Rim fire-polished. No pontil mark. Cover: pressed upside down in a one-piece female mold, in conjunction with a female mold of two vertical sections that formed the finial, by a plain male plunger that formed the interior and rim. No pontil mark. No apparent fire-polishing. Bowl and cover engraved, probably with a stone wheel, with bands of stylized floral and grape motifs.

Published ReferencesWatkins, Lura Woodside, Cambridge Glass, 1818-1888: The Story of the New England Glass Company, Boston, Marshall Jones, 1930; reprint, New York, Bramball House, 1953, p. 93, pl. 36, row 2, center.

Watkins, Lura Woodside, "Pressed Glass of the New England Glass Company: An Early Catalogue at the Corning Museum," Journal of Glass Studies, vol. 22, 1970, pp. 149-164, p. 152, fig. 2 (repr. of pl. 4 of New England Glass Company 1869 catalogue [Huber pattern]).

The Toledo Museum of Art, Art in Glass: A Guide to the Glass Collections, Toledo, Ohio, 1969, repr. p. 106.

Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, repr. p. 195.

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. 536, no. 879.