Footed Sugar Bowl and Cover

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Footed Sugar Bowl and Cover

Manufacturer Union Flint Glass Works (American, 1826-1844)

Place of OriginUnited States

Date1815-1840

DimensionsH (with cover): 20.1 cm (7 29/32 in.); H (without cover): 14.9 cm (5 7/8 in.); Rim Diam: 12.3 cm (4 13/16 in.); Base Diam: 10.3 cm (4 1/16 in.)

MediumColorless glass.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1985.40A-B

On View

Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion (2444 Monroe Street), Glass Pavilion Gallery, 3

DescriptionBowl: blown and finished by tooling. Applied tooled solid stem with bulbous medial knop. Applied tooled foot. Inner and outer edges of rim serrated. Bowl cut above with a band of short, arched panels and below with a band of printies with blaze alternating with strawberry diamonds with fans above and a single horizontal line below. Underside of foot cut with a 16-pointed star. Cover: blown and finished by tooling. Cut with a band of motifs related to the printies and strawberry diamonds on bowl. Top edge of rim of cover slightly cut and semipolished.

Published ReferencesInnes, Lowell, Pittsburgh Glass, 1791-1891: A History and Guide for Collectors, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1976, p. 142, repr. fig. 96, no. 3.

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. 199, no. 192.