Sugar Bowl with Cover

Object Name: 
Sugar Bowl with Cover

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Object Name: 
Sugar Bowl with Cover
Maker(s): 
Marlton, Tomlinson, Gaffer
Place Made: 
United States, NJ, Milford
Accession Number: 
50.4.4
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 17.5 cm; H: 8.75 cm; H (at top of dome): 12 cm; Bowl Diam (at top): 8.1 cm; Bowl W (including handles): 15.1 cm; Foot W: 6.5 cm; Foot D: 6.5 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
probably 1800-1825
Primary Description: 
Sugar Bowl with Cover. Lead glass, pale bluish tint where metal is thick; free-blown; deep bowl, straight sides slanting to plain rim, in lower part, sloping to applied square base indented at each corner, rough pontil mark; two opposing applied slender ear-handles; 18th century type set-in flanged and domed cover with one wing of what probably was a swan finial.

More Info

Department: 
American
Provenance: 
McKearin, George S., Source
1950-07-31
Hurry, Renwick, Former Collection
Delavan, Herbert, Former Collection
Category: 
Early American
Color: 
blue
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
applied decoration
applied
Material: 
glass
lead glass

Exhibitions (2)

The American Craftsman and the European Tradition, 1620-1820
Venue(s)
Minneapolis Institute of Arts 1989-09-23 through 1989-12-31
Carnegie Museum of Art 1990-04-14 through 1990-06-10
Publications
1
The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period, 1825-1850
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1954-06-21 through 1954-09-15
Publications
1
 

Publications (3)

A Catalogue of American Antiques (1990) illustrated, p. 96; BIB# 69239
Calendar (1989-10) illustrated, p. 2;
The American Craftsman and the European Tradition, 1620-1820 (1989) illustrated, p. 228 ff, #85; BIB# 24956