Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2012.

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Covered Sugar Bowl

Manufacturer New England Glass Company (American, 1818 - 1888)

CultureAmerican

Dateca. 1825-40

MediumBlown glass with silver coins

DimensionsOverall: 10 5/8 in. (27 cm)
Overall, Rim: 5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm)
Base: 4 in. (10.2 cm)

Credit LineBequest Kate Tyler Smith Collection

Object number52.18.6

Collections

Glass Art

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 116-3, Case 17

DescriptionCovered footed sugar bowl of clear blown glass. Rough pontil. Nick in mid-band. History of piece from heir indicated manufacturer. Bowl: Globular bowl decorated with a band of quilloche (chain-link) and a triple band nearer the galleried rim which is decorated with threading on an applied hollow knop stem enclosing an 1810, B1 Franc Napoleon Empereur coin. Applied plain round bun-like foot. Cover: Dome shaped with a quilloche band and lower triple band. Hollow globular knop finial enclosing a George III-1816 pence. Solid flat top showing rough pontil.

Label TextCovered Sugar Bowl New England Glass Co., Cambridge, Massachusetts Ca. 1820-35 Blown and tooled lead glass. Silver coins enclosed in hollow knops. finial- 1816 George III sixpence stem- 1810 Napolean one franc Bequest Kate Tyler Smith Collection 52.18.6 This sugar bowl which is stylistically related to others from the Boston area, is documented by its decent in the family of James B. Barnes who was associated with the New England Glass Co., from its formulation in 1818 until the mid 1840s.Published ReferencesGary E. Baker, "Smith Collection Sugar Bowl," THE GLASS CLUB BULLETIN OF THE NATIONAL EARLY AMERICAN GLASS CLUB, No. 160 (Winter 1990), cover, 2-3. Jeff Harrison, _Collecting with Vision: Treasures From the Chrysler Museum of Art_ (London: D. Giles Ltd., 2007), 137, fig. 170. ISBN: 978-0-940744-72-1 Wright, Diane C. (editor), _Glass Masterworks from the Chrysler Museum of Art_, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017, pg. 80-81.