Sugar bowl

1790-1810

Measurements

8 in x 5-1/4 in (dia)

Materials

Colorless lead glass

Credit Line

Historic Odessa Foundation, gift of

Accession Number

2024.19

Comments

This urn-shaped lidded sugar bowl displays the kinds of glass-cutting that adorned Anglo-Irish glass of the late 18th and 19th centuries.  In this example, the lower portion of the body is cut with 17 broad facets.  Above them is a band of thin copper-wheel cut lines.  The flared lid echoes this decoration in its 15 broad facets that spread out and around the border.  An ovoid facet-cut finial, above 16 dimples cut round the top of the lid, caps the sugar bowl.

The lid is shaped to fit relatively tightly over the top edge of the body.  The sugar bowl stands on a thick disc base above a plain stem.  The colorless glass used in this bowl has a gray cast associated with much lead glass.