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Footed Sugar Bowl

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

Date1855-1875

DimensionsH: 4 7/32 in. (10.7 cm); Rim Diam: 4 11/16 in. (11.9 cm); Base Diam: 3 21/32 in. (9.3 cm)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.69

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upright in the same manner and the same type of mold as 1965.70, but more detailed and of slightly different shape, bearing the California pattern. The pattern on the underside of the base consists of smaller diamonds and dots that encircle a hexagon containing a pattern of large and small dots. No pontil mark.

Published ReferencesRogers, Millard F., Jr., "Early American Pressed Glass: The Duckworth Gift of Glass," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 8, no. 4, Winter 1965, pp. 74-94, repr. p. 90.

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. 162, fig. 14 (repr. of page from New England Glass Company 1869 catalogue, pl. 23), no. 1211.

Innes, Lowell, Pittsburgh Glass, 1791-1891: A History and Guide for Collectors, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1976, p. 271, no. 279.

Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, repr. p. 192, no. 50.

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. 494, no. 818.