Footed Sugar Bowl and Cover

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Footed Sugar Bowl and Cover

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

Date1845-1855

DimensionsH (with cover): 5 1/2 in. (14.0 cm); H (without cover): 3 11/16 in. (9.4 cm); Rim Diam: 4 11/16 in. (12.0 cm); Base Diam: 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm)

MediumColorless glass

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Harold G. Duckworth

Object number

1969.151

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DescriptionBowl: pressed upright in a female mold of three vertical sections, bearing the pattern of eight Gothic arches (four diamond-patterned arches alternating with four vertically ribbed arches), with a base plate that formed the underside of the lobed foot, by a plain male plunger. Shear mark in interior of bowl. No pontil mark. Cover: pressed upside down in a one-piece plain female mold, in conjunction with a two-piece female mold that formed the finial, by a male plunger bearing the pattern that appears on the inside of the cover.

Published ReferencesLee, Ruth Webb, Sandwich Glass: The History of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, 7th ed., Northboro, Mass., author, 1947, pp. 408, 409, pl. 158, bottom left.

Rose, 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. 118, no. 454 (blue).

The Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 3 vols., Hyannis, Mass., Richard A. Bourne, 1987, vol. 3, no. 1371 (same as Rose).

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. 491.