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Sugar bowl
Caspar Wistar
1739-1782
Category
Glass
Creator/Artist/Maker
Caspar Wistar (Probable maker)
Place of Origin
Alloway; New Jersey; Salem; Mid-Atlantic; United States; North America
Materials
- Glass (nonlead)
Museum Object Number
1959.0030.002 A, B
Credit Line/Donor
Museum purchase
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Object Number
1959.0030.002 A, B
Object Name
Sugar bowl
Category
Glass
Creator (Role)
Caspar Wistar (Probable maker)
Place of Origin
Alloway; New Jersey; Salem; Mid-Atlantic; United States; North America
Date
1739-1782
Materials
- Glass (nonlead)
Techniques
- Blown
- Dip-molded
Dimensions (inches)
7.323 (H) x 6.778 (L) x 5.236 (Diam)
Dimensions (centimeters)
18.6 (H) x 17.215 (L) x 13.3 (Diam)
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Book: Palmer, Arlene. 1993 Glass in Early America: Selections from the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum. 425 pp.
• Published: no. 150, p. 190 and pl. 13, p. 48Book: Lindsey, Jack L. 1999 Worldly Goods: The Arts of Early Pennsylvania, 1680-1758.
• Published: no. 328, p. 212Article: Marshall, Agnes. "Shopping Around". American Collector. 16 (12)
• Published: p. 25Book: Hutchins, Catherine E., et al. 1983 Arts of the Pennsylvania Germans.
• Published: p. 202, fig. 192Book: Richman, Irwin. 2001 Pennsylvania German Arts: More than Hearts, Parrots, and Tulips.
• Published: p. 105Journal: The Magazine Antiques.
• Published: See advertisements of Arthur J. Sussel, Antiques 69, no. 5 (May 1956): 380 and Antiques 38, no. 6 (December 1940): 264Catalogue: Parke-Bernet Galleries (Auction caalogue).
• Sold at auction: March 19-21, 1959, "American and Other Decorative Arts...Part Three: Collection of the Late Arthur J. Sussel", sale no. 1888, lot 79Catalogue: Palmer, Arlene. The Wistarburgh Glassworks: The Beginning of Jersey Glassmaking.
• Published: p. 92, fig. 17Catalogue: Palmer, Arlene. 1989 The Wistars and Their Glass, 1739- 1777.
• Published: fig. 20, p.22Article: Palmer, Arlene. 1976 Glass Production in Eighteenth-Century America: The Wistarburgh Enterprise. Winterthur Portfolio. 11: 75-101.
• Published: p. 92, fig. 17