Footed Sugar Bowl and Cover

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

Date1865-1875

DimensionsH (with cover): 18.3 cm (7 7/32 in.); H (without cover): 10.85 cm (4 9/32 in.); Rim Diam: 10.5 cm (4 1/8 in.); Base Diam: 9.4 cm (3 11/16 in.)

MediumOpalescent opal lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.140

Not on View

DescriptionBowl: pressed in the same manner and the same type of mold as 1965.121, except that the base plate was patterned with thirty pointed rays. Rim fire-polished. No pontil mark. Cover: pressed upside down in a one-piece female mold bearing the so-called loop pattern that formed the cover, in conjunction with a female mold of two vertical sections that formed the finial and its hexagonal base, with a cap ring that formed the scalloped rim, by a plain male plunger. Rim not fire-polished. No pontil mark.

Published ReferencesBelknap, E. M., Milk Glass, New York, Crown, 1949, p. 232, no. 216.

Ferson, Regis F. and Mary Fleming Ferson, Yesterday's Milk Glass Today, Pittsburgh, authors, 1981, pp. 56-57, no. 263.

Barlow, Raymond E. and Joan E. Kaiser, The Glass Industry in Sandwich, ed. Lloyd C. Nickerson, 3 vols., Windham, N.H., authors, vol. 1, 1993, repr. p. 156, no. 1156.

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. 498, no. 826.