About This Artwork

New England Glass Company
American, 1818-1888

Covered Sugar Bowl, 1820/30

Pressed glass
13 x 12.4 x 9.8 cm (5 1/8 x 4 7/8 x 3 7/8 in.)
Gift of the Antiquarian Society through Quinn E. Delaney, 1995.40a-b

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Corning Museum of Glass, New York, The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period, 1825–1850, 1954, cat. 51.

Publication History

“Recent Important Acquisitions,” Journal of Glass Studies (Corning Museum of Glass, 1996), ill.

Judith A. Barter et al, American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), pp. 154-155, no. 66.

Ownership History

Richard H. Wood, Baltimore, by 1964; William J. Elsholz, Detroit, 1964; Richard A. Bourne Sale of the Elsholz Collection of Early American Glass, 1986; Private collection, New York. Hirschl and Adler Galleries, New York. Maxwell Davidson, New York. Richard A. Bourne and Company, Hyannis, Mass., by 1991; Paul C. Richards, Templeton, Mass., 1991; Hirschl and Adler Galleries, 1993; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1995.