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Object NameCovered Sugar Bowl

Made FromLead Glass

Dateabout 1820-1835

Place MadeUnited States, probably Eastern United States

TechniquePattern molded, free-blown

SizeOverall H: 15.75 cm; Bowl H: 13.25 cm, Diam: 13.5 cm; Foot Diam: 10.5 cm

Accession Number50.4.157

Curatorial Area(s)

Exhibitions

Loan exhibition of eighteenth and early nineteenth century furniture & glass; for the benefit of the National Council of Girl Scouts, inc.

On ViewThe Jerome and Lucille Strauss Study Gallery

Physical DescriptionCovered Sugar Bowl. Lead glass, colorless; molded for pattern and free-blown; deep hemispherical bowl with wide galleried rim, flaring pedestal foot with underfolded rim; shallow domed cover with wide topfold on rim and with large pontil-marked button knob. Bowl in widely expanded geometric pattern (probably GIII-14): band of rays on bottom, band of vertical ribbing, one of alternate sunburst motif 4 and blocks of diamond diapering, one of diagonal ribs to right, single horizontal between bands; foot, pattern-molded, broken swirl design; cover, in geometric pattern (probably GIII-13) with the two bands of diagonal ribbing (falling on dome), one of alternate sunburst motif 4 and blocks of diamond diapering, and, under fold, faint diagonal ribbing.
Provenance

Source George S. McKearin (b. 1874) - 1950-07-31