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Covered Sugar Bowl

Covered Sugar Bowl

 
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Object Name: 
Covered Sugar Bowl
Department
American
Maker(s)
Stiegel, Henry William, Maker - probably
Place Made: 
United States, PA, Manheim
Date: 
about 1764-1774
Color
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colorless
Technique
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molding
Material
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glass
Dimensions: 
H(with cover): 14.5 cm, (without cover): 7.9 cm, D(rim): 10.8 cm, (foot): 6 cm
Accession Number: 
55.4.69
Location: 
Not on Display
Description
Clear "brilliant" glass; pattern molded and expanded; deep short foot with sloping sides and rough pontil mark; set-in slightly domed cover with stemmed ball finial containing seven small tears and having a miniature ball on top; bowl and cover patterned in a mold with diamond diaper design (twelve diamonds in lateral chain).
Provenance
McKearin Antiques, Source

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Publications

Chemical Analyses of Early Glasses (Volume 3) (2012) pp. 86, 682;
Form & decoration: innovation in the decorative arts, 1470-1870 (1998) illustrated, p. 185, no. 88; BIB# 60600
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Bonanza Books edition) (1950) pl. 30, #2, pp. 180-181; p. 21; BIB# 96725
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Doubleday edition) (1950) pl. 30, #2, pp. 180-181; p. 21; BIB# 25299
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Crown Publishers edition) (1950) pl. 30, #2, pp. 180-181; p. 21; BIB# 76944

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