Covered Sugar Bowl

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Object Name: 
Covered Sugar Bowl
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, PA, Pittsburgh
Accession Number: 
55.4.56
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 21.9 cm; (a) Bowl H: 16.5 cm; Rim Diam: 11.7 cm; Base Diam: 9.4 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1815-1835
Primary Description: 
Covered Sugar Bowl. Clear glass with slight greyish tinge; wear marks at base and interior; free blown and cut; flat solid foot with rough pontil mark, stem with large knop or squat baluster containing a tear and resting on a disk, straight sided bowl with galleried rim; domed cover with flattened solid knop finial; on the body a band of narrow strawberry diamonds with fans between the pointed tops, underneath a circlet of shallow ovals; on the cover the identical decoration but reversed, on the finial a multi-pointed star.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern; Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin Antiques, Source
1955-11-12
Color: 
colorless
gray
Technique: 
glassblowing
cutting
Material: 
glass
lead glass

Publications (5)

Glass Tableware, Bowls and Vases (1982) pl. 129; BIB# 22048
Pittsburgh Glass, 1797-1891 (1976) illustrated, p. 143 (fig. 100); BIB# 19272
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Doubleday edition) (1950) pl. 34, #3, pp. 188-189; BIB# 25299
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Bonanza Books edition) (1950) pl. 34, #3, pp. 188-189; BIB# 96725
Two Hundred Years of American Blown Glass (Crown Publishers edition) (1950) pl. 34, #3, pp. 188-189; BIB# 76944