Footed Sugar Bowl and Ball Closure

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Footed Sugar Bowl and Ball Closure

ManufacturerProbably Granite Glass Works (American, 1846-1872)

Date1860-1872

DimensionsH (with ball): 17.7 cm (6 31/32 in.); Rim Diam: 10.2 cm (4 in.); Base Diam: 9.4 cm (3 11/16 in.)

MediumBowl: olive-green non-lead glass. Ball closure: olive-green non-lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

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

Object number

1959.95

Not on View

DescriptionBowl: blown and tooled to shape. Four applied Type III lily pads. Applied sloping foot with pincered decoration. Rough quatrefoil pontil mark. Ball closure: blown and tooled. Small rough-edged hole where cracked off blowpipe.

Published ReferencesRogers, Millard F., Jr., "American Glass: 1608-1940, " TMA Museum News, vol. 4, no. 3, Summer 1961, pp. 51-70, repr. p. 59.

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.142, no. 123.