Covered Sugar Bowl

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Object Name: 
Covered Sugar Bowl
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
United States, MA, Cambridge
Accession Number: 
73.4.19 B
Dimensions: 
(A) H: 12 cm, D: 6.8 cm; (Ba&b) H: 14.8 cm, (Ba) H: 9 cm, D(base): 6.8 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1837
Credit Line: 
Gift of Marion Pike
Web Description: 
This was made as a wedding gift for Thyrza Barnes and George Leighton.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Pike, Marion, Source
Category: 
Early American

Description

Primary Description: 
Colorless, lead glass; blown, mold-blown, pattern-molded. (a) Waisted cylindrical shape; galleried rim with closely spaced threading below; two applied rings and molded gadrooning cover lower part of body; three wafers connect bowl to short stem; flat circular foot; rough pontil. (b) Bell-shaped with swirled, pointed red knob attached with two wafers to gadrooned body; one applied ring near folded rim.

Publications (2)

Glass A to Z (2002) illustrated, p. 377; BIB# 73416
Shedevry amerikanskogo stekla: iz kollektsij Muzeia Stekla v Korninge i Muzeia Iskusstva v Tolido (1990) illustrated, pp. 50-51, #27; BIB# 34475

Objects in Set (2)

Creamer and Sugar
Artist:New England Glass Company
Date:1837
Accession Number:73.4.19
Creamer
Artist:New England Glass Company
Date:1837
Accession Number:73.4.19 A