Covered Sugar Bowl

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Object Name: 
Covered Sugar Bowl
Place Made: 
England
Accession Number: 
66.2.3
Dimensions: 
(a) Sugar Bowl H: 10.8 cm; (b) Cover H: 6.7 cm, Diam: 12.1 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1840-1860
Credit Line: 
Gift of Mrs. Alan Cornwell
Primary Description: 
Light yellow uranium glass; pressed. Ovoid shape with a pattern of elongated diamonds around body; circular foot.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Cornwell, Mrs. Alan, Source
1966-06-10
Color: 
yellow
Technique: 
pressing
Material: 
uranium glass

Exhibitions (2)

Curiosities of Glassmaking
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 2007-04-01 through 2007-10-21
West Bridge Show
Pressed Glass, 1825-1925
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1983-04 through 1983-10
St. Louis Art Museum 1983-12-01 through 1984-03-01
Suntory Museum of Art 1984-07-17 through 1984-09-02
Portland Museum of Art 1984-11-01 through 1985-12-31
Cincinnati Art Museum 1985-04-13 through 1985-05-26
 

Publications (3)

Curiously Interesting: The Corning Museum of Glass Presents All things Odd and Glass (2007-06) illustrated, p. 20; BIB# AI72435
Pressed Glass 1825-1925 (1983) p. 42; BIB# 30792
American and European Pressed Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1981) illustrated, p. 364, #1414; BIB# 30457