Sugar bowl

Thomas Cains|South Boston Flint Glass Works|Phoenix Glass Works

1812–27 · Blown glass with applied decoration · The American Wing

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.

Artist

Thomas Cains|South Boston Flint Glass Works|Phoenix Glass Works

Date

1812–27

Medium

Blown glass with applied decoration

Culture

American

Department

The American Wing

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1969