Sugar bowl
The chainlike decoration on this sugar bowl and pitcher (69.167) was achieved by applying two parallel threads of glass and then nipping them together to form the connected ovals. This mode of decoration dates back to ancient Roman times and was revived on sixteenth-century Venetian and late-seventeenth-century English glass. It appeared again on English glass in the second half of the eighteenth century. Thomas Cains, who came from Bristol, England, was the proprietor of both firms that may have produced these pieces.
Artwork Details
- Title: Sugar bowl
- Maker: Attributed to Thomas Cains (active 1812–ca. 1820)
- Manufacturer: Possibly at his South Boston Flint Glass Works or
- Manufacturer: Possibly at Phoenix Glass Works (1812–27)
- Date: 1812–27
- Geography: Made in Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Culture: American
- Medium: Blown glass with applied decoration
- Dimensions: H. 6 3/16 in. (15.7 cm); Diam. 5 1/4 in. (13.3 cm)
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1969
- Object Number: 69.168a, b
- Curatorial Department: The American Wing
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Multiple artists/makers
1813–30
Thomas Cains
Phoenix Glass Works
1830–40
Henry N. Hooper and Company
Boston & Sandwich Glass Company
ca. 1850
William F. Shaw
after 1852
Simon Willard
1825–30
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