Footed Sugar Bowl

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Footed Sugar Bowl

Place of OriginProbably Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Date1855-1865

DimensionsH: 5 31/32 in. (15.2 cm); Rim Diam: 5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm); Base Diam: 3 17/32 in. (9.0 cm)

MediumDeep royal blue lead glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.28

Not on View

DescriptionPressed, probably upright, in a female mold of three vertical sections bearing a variant of the so-called colonial pattern, with an almost flat base plate that formed the underside of the foot, by a plain male plunger that formed the interior and upper edge of the rim. The moldmarks rise from the bottom edge of the foot to the lower end of the scallops on the rim. Rim fire-polished. Rough pontil mark.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Early American Pressed Glass, Wellesley Hills, Mass., author, 1960, pp. 44-45 (colonial pattern), form no. 4, pl. 10, row 2, left (variant).

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. 475, no. 775.