Footed Sugar Bowl and Cover

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Footed Sugar Bowl and Cover

Manufacturer Fort Pitt Glass Works (American)

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

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

Date1855-1875

DimensionsH (with cover): 14.7 cm (5 25/32 in.); H (without cover): 10.0 cm (3 15/16 in.); Rim Diam: 11.75 cm (4 5/8 in.); Base Diam: 7.6 cm (3 in.)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1965.70A-B

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DescriptionBowl: pressed in a female mold of three vertical sections bearing the California pattern by a plain male plunger that formed the interior and top of the lip, in conjunction with another male plunger bearing a pattern of diamonds, each enclosing a dot encircling a petaled flower, that formed the slightly concave underside of the base and foot. The moldmarks extend from the bottom edge of the foot vertically to the top of the rim in the medial rib between every other two panels. No pontil mark. Cover: pressed upside down in a one-piece plain female mold of octagonal form, in conjunction with a two-piece female mold that formed the octagonal finial, by a male plunger bearing alternating patterns of cornucopia, trellis, bellflower, and pine tree, none of which is the same as any pattern on the bowl.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Web, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, MA, author, 1947, p. 408, pl. 148, top left.

Rogers, 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.

Fauster, Carl U., Libbey Glass Since 1818, Toledo, Ohio, Len Beach Press, 1979, repr. p. 192.

Spillman, Jane S., American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Museum of Glass Catalog Series, Corning, NY, Corning Museum of Glass, 1981, p. 249, no. 978.

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. 493, no. 816.

Exhibition HistoryThe Toledo Museum of Art, Libbey Glass: A Tradition of 150 Years, 1818-1968, exh. cat., Toledo, Ohio, 1968, p. 58, no. 50.