Collection Highlights
Great Attraction at the Masonic Hall...Joice Heth
Date:
1835
Object Number:
LIB.SY.1835.49
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Luce Center
Sugar bowl with cover
Object Number:
INV.12606ab
Date:
Possibly 1780-1820, possibly 1920-1940
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 6 3/4 x 5 in. ( 17.1 x 12.7 cm )
Marks:
written: paper inside bowl; "possibly English 18th century"
Description:
Cobalt blue pattern-molded lead glass sugar bowl with cover; "U"-shaped bowl with contiguous pedestal foot with pontil mark pattern-molded with diamond lattice pattern; low domed cover pattern-molded with diamond lattice pattern with applied swirled ball knob.
Gallery Label:
Most 18th- and 19th-century sugar bowls have applied bases, unlike this example, which suggests that it may be a later reproduction.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
