Sugar Bowl with Nip't -Diamond-Waies

Object Name: 
Sugar Bowl with Nip't -Diamond-Waies

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Object Name: 
Sugar Bowl with Nip't -Diamond-Waies
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
England, London
Accession Number: 
60.2.35
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 14.5 cm; Rim Diam: 11.7 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
about 1925-1930
Primary Description: 
Very heavy colorless lead glass with a slight gray tinge and few minute bubbles; blown, mold-blown, pattern molded, applied, tooled decoration, pressed base. Square base with concave ribbed center in the form of a large blossom (pressed), applied composite stem consisting of a ball knop resting on one merese and surmounted by four more mereses increasing in diameter towards the top, applied cup-shaped bowl; thickened out-turned rim which has been pinched to form a rosette motif as viewed from the top; bowl patterned in a rib mold, upper body has a chain of nip't-diamond-waies.

More Info

Department: 
Modern
Provenance: 
Hollander, David, Source
1959-12-28
Color: 
Colorless, Grey Tint
colorless
Technique: 
Blown, Pattern Molded, Trailed, Pressed, Pincered
pressing

Publications (2)

20th century British glass (2009) illustrated, p. 87, pl. 165, left; BIB# 110658
American and European Pressed Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass (1981) illustrated, p. 354, #1389; BIB# 30457