Footed Sugar Bowl

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Footed Sugar Bowl

Place of OriginProbably Europe; possibly United States

Date1855-1865

DimensionsH: 3 13/16 in. (9.7 cm); Rim Diam: 5 23/32 in. (14.5 cm); Base Diam: 3 7/16 in. (8.7 cm)

MediumLead glass; mold-pressed.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1968.25

Not on View

DescriptionPurplish blue glass. Pressed upright in a female mold of four vertical sections bearing the pattern by a plain male plunger that formed the interior, with a cap ring that formed the upper surface of the broad rim. A patterned, convex male plunger formed the interior of the foot and its alternately scalloped and pointed edge. The four mold seams extend from the top edge of the foot straight up to the underside edge of the rim. No pontil mark.

Published ReferencesRose, James H., The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850, exh. cat., Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, N.Y., 1954, p. 101, no. 336.

"Museum Examples of Sandwich Glass," Antiques, vol. 34, July 1938, p. 21, fig. 3, next to left (Reprint 2, p. 46).

Winchester, Alice, "Antiques," Antiques, vol. 100, July 1971, repr. frontis.

Spillman, Jane S., American and European Pressed Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning Museum of Glass Catalog Series, Corning, N.Y., Corning Museum of Glass, 1981, p. 364, no. 1416.

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. 807, no. 1377.