Sugar Bowl and Cover

Manufacturer Co-Operative Flint Glass Works (American, 1879-1937)

Manufacturer Phoenix Glass Works (American, 1819 or 1820-1870)

Date1910-1937

DimensionsH (with cover): 15.65 cm (6 5/32 in.); H (without cover): 9.5 cm (3 3/4 in.); Rim Diam (cover): 9.1 cm (3 19/32 in.); Rim Diam (bowl): 10.25 cm (4 1/32 in.); Base Diam: 7.35 cm (2 7/8 in.)

MediumOrange-red non-lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.109

Not on View

DescriptionBowl: pressed upright in a female mold of three vertical sections bearing the so-called ivy-in-snow pattern, with a base plate bearing a pattern of twenty pointed rays that formed the base, with a cap ring that formed the upper edge and top of the rim, by a plain male plunger. The moldmarks extend from the bottom edge of the base to the rim. No pontil mark. Cover: pressed, probably upside down, in a one-piece female mold bearing the pattern, in conjunction with a two-piece female mold that formed the finial and a one-piece female mold that formed its top, with a cap ring that formed the rim, by a plain male plunger. No fire-polishing. No pontil mark.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Early American Pressed Glass, Wellesley Hills, MA, author, 1960, pp. 450-451 (ivy-in-snow pattern), form no. 14, pls. 103, 119, 145 (various forms).

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. 516, no. 870, colorpl. 870, p. 264.