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

DescriptionBowl: pressed upright in a female mold of three vertical sections, with a base plate that formed the underside of the foot and the depression in it, with a cap ring that probably formed the rounded top of the rim, by a plain male plunger. Cover and short cylinder above: pressed upside down, in a plain female mold, in conjunction with a female mold of two vertical sections that formed the hexagonal section of the finial, with a base plate that formed its low rounded top, by a male plunger bearing the pattern, which thus appears on the interior of the cover, in contrast to the bowl, which bears its pattern on the exterior.

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.