Footed Sugar Bowl

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Footed Sugar Bowl

Place of OriginProbably Midwest

Date1835-1855

DimensionsRim Diam: 5 1/16 in. (12.9 cm); Base Diam: 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm); H: 3 13/16 in. (9.7 cm)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1967.28

Not on View

DescriptionPressed upright in a female mold of three vertical sections bearing the Roman rosette pattern, with a base plate bearing a pattern of an eight-pointed star surmounted by flutes, and a flat shoulder that formed the exterior underside of the foot by a plain male plunger that formed the interior. The moldmarks extend from the lower edge of the foot to the top of the rim, but each takes a different course: one goes straight up, passing through the centers of two blocks of diamonds and the small plain boss between; the second rises to the inner ring surrounding the central diamond-patterned circle, then follows the curve of the ring to the left, and then rises vertically to the rim; and the third rises vertically to the outer ring around another diamond-patterned circle, then follows the curve to the right, and then rises to the rim, passing through the center of one of the small plain bosses.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, MA, author, 1947, p. 407, pl. 156, top left.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 363, pl. 163, no. 1.

Rose, James H., The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, exh. cat., Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, 1954, p. 112, no. 402 or 405.

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. 98, no. 288.

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. 413, no. 611.