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

Sugar Bowl

Manufacturer Unknown

CultureEnglish

Dateca. 1855

MediumPressed glass

DimensionsOverall: 3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm)
Overall, Rim: 5 in. (12.7 cm)

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number0.423

Not on view

Label TextGLASS FOR THE MASSES A great revolution in glassmaking technology occurred in the mid-nineteenth century: the machine press. First developed in America in the late 1820s, it was quickly adopted by the British glass industry. Machine presses required less-skilled laborers and allowed for greater productivity in the factory. Thus, glassware became less expensive for the growing consumer market. Even a middle-class home in the mid-nineteenth century could afford a complete table setting of pressed glass in a matching pattern. Pressed glass often imitated more expensive cut glass, but increasingly featured more fashionable styles or cutting-edge colors for a highly decorative effect. English Sugar Bowl, ca. 1855 Pressed glass Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 0.423 Exhibition History"Cheers to Queen Victoria: British Glass from the Chrysler Collection," Waitzer Community Gallery, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, September 22, 2010 - March 20, 2011.Published ReferencesLee, _Victorian Glass_, p. 69; C.R. Lattimore, _English 19-th Century Pressed-Moulded Glass_, p. 115, pl.72.