Footed Sugar Bowl and Cover

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Footed Sugar Bowl and Cover

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

Date1835-1850

DimensionsH (with cover): 5 1/8 in. (13.0 cm); H (without cover): 3 15/32 in. (8.8 cm); Base Diam: 2 27/32 in. (7.2 cm); Rim Diam: 4 21/32 in. (11.8 cm)

MediumTranslucent white alabaster glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1969.141A-B

Not on View

DescriptionBowl: pressed upright in a female mold of three vertical sections bearing the pattern of eight Gothic arches (two each with vertical ribbing, arches, fine stippling, and lattice of stippled diamonds), with a base plate that formed the plain concave base, by a plain male plunger. Cover: pressed upside down, the hexagonal finial and short cylindrical base below it in a female mold of two vertical sections, the octagonal section below in a plain female mold, by a male plunger bearing a pattern corresponding to that on the bowl, plus a pattern that formed a rosette beneath the finial consisting of eight long and eight short petals radiating from a small central boss. The pattern is on the interior of the cover, in contrast to the bowl, where it is on the exterior; thus the elements of the pattern do not match when the cover is on the bowl.

Label TextThis sugar bowl was pressed in the same mold as the nearby greenish-yellow sugar bowl.Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, Mass., author, 1947, p. 408, pl. 158, bottom right.

McKearin, George S. and Helen McKearin, drawings by James L. McCreery, American Glass, New York, Crown, 1941; rev. ed., 1948, p. 363, pl. 163, nos. 7, 9.

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, Mass., Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 3, nos. 1620, 1695.

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. 365, no. 486.