New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.

Sugar Bowl

Manufacturer Unknown

ManufacturerPossibly Ihmsen Glass Company

CultureAmerican

Dateca. 1860

MediumPressed glass

DimensionsOverall: 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm)
Base: 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm)
Overall, Rim: 4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm)

Credit LineGift of Arlene Gade

Object number90.64

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DescriptionSugar bowl of opaque white pressed glass. Nine sides flaring to rim. Round foot. Each side has a sunken arched panel with a raised depiction of a different pressed glass article. From left to right these are: a sugar bowl, bar bottle, goblet & ale glass in the Excelsior pattern; a hexagonal candlestick; a spillholder (?) in Excelsior pattern; a bar bottle in Ashburton pattern; a goblet in flute pattern; and a spillholder (?) with an eight-pointed star on the side. Fair condition. Flakes on rim. The two most severe being at the corner between the flute goblet & star spillholder & above the Excelsior sugar bowl. Large flake in foot under Excelsior ale glass. Lid is missing.

Label TextSUGAR BOWL Midwestern, possibly C. Ihmsen Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Ca. 1860 Pressed glass. Gift of Arlene Gade 90.64 GAMq This bowl may have been intended for advertising. Each of the nine sides shows a different piece of pressed glass. Five of them are in the Excelsior Pattern, but Flute and Ashburton are also represented. Added by: AGMPublished ReferencesInnes, PITTSBURGH GLASS 1797-1891, pp. 302-305, fig. 327, rare in opaque white, the one known example with a lid was in the William J. Elsholz collection. McCready, "The Ihmsen Family," ANTIQUES MAGAZINE, Aug. 1938, pp. 72-73. Bourne, THE ELSHOLZ COLLECTION, VOL. 3, Nov. 1987, pp. 426-427, lot 1616.