Covered Sugar Bowl

1835–55

Artist unknown (American, 19th century)
Mid-Atlantic or New England

Hand-blown by a skilled glassworker who was familiar with the ornamental potential of fine, colorless glassware, this piece is unusual in its use of unrefined bright green glass, which was typically employed to make liquor bottles, pharmaceutical vials, and other utilitarian wares. The work is both elegantly proportioned and cleverly conceived; the swirled gadrooning on the body echoes that on the cover, and when the cover is inverted, it echoes the shape of the bowl.

Status: On View, Gallery 172
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Artist unknown
Title: Covered Sugar Bowl
Place: Middle Atlantic (Object Possibly made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: c. 1835–1855
Medium: Blown glass
Dimensions: 21.4 × 10.8 cm (8 7/16 × 4 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Quinn E. and Robert O. Delaney Fund
Reference Number: 2001.478
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