Art Institute of Chicago

Covered Sugar Bowl

Artist unknown (American, 19th century)

Date

1835–55

Medium

Blown glass

Culture

Middle Atlantic

Department

Arts of the Americas

Institution

Art Institute of Chicago

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.

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