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Bowl, Sugar

Object number93.108.5 a,b

Date1820

MediumGlass

Credit LineHeinz History Center Collection

DescriptionColorless with tint of gray glass sugar bowl with a band of leaves and berries.Dimensions7.5 x 4.5 in. (19.1 x 11.4 cm)
Label TextPossibly Pittsburgh, colorless glass, engraved. “I went through the flint glass works of Mr. Bakewell and was surprised to see the beauty of this manufacture … in which the expensive decorations of cutting and engraving … were carried to such perfection.” Thomas Nuttal, 1819 It took little more than 10 years from their 1808 founding for the Bakewell factory to establish a reputation as a producer of fine decorated glassware. The first American glasshouse to provide ware for the President’s table, Bakewell also made cut and engraved glassware for those consumers able to afford it. Highly prized examples from this factory, such as our greyhound tumbler, are featured in the exhibit, Glass: Shattering Notions. The museum, which has sought these types of objects for over 50 years, added to our Bakewell holdings in 1999 with the purchase of some of the pieces exhibited here.

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