Footed Sugar Bowl

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Footed Sugar Bowl

ManufacturerPossibly C. Ihmsen Glass Works (American, 1836-1895)

Place of OriginPittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Date1855-1860

DimensionsH (with cover): 14.0 cm (5 1/2 in.); H (without cover): 9.1 cm (3 19/32 in.); Rim Diam (bowl): 12.5 cm (4 15/16 in.); Base Diam (bowl): 7.3 cm (2 7/8 in.)

MediumColorless glass with a slight yellowish tinge.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1968.50A-B

Not on View

Collections

Glass

Published ReferencesInnes, Lowell, Pittsburgh Glass, 1791-1891: A History and Guide for Collectors, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1976, pp. 302-303, fig. 327.

Innes, Lowell, Early Glass of the Pittsburgh District, 1797-1900, exh. cat., Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 1949, p.50, bottom illus., second from left.

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, MA, Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 1, no. 686.

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, MA, Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 3, nos. 1768, 1616 (opaque white).

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. 367, no. 492.