Covered Sugar Bowl
New England Glass Company
1820–30
Medium
Pressed glass
Dimensions
13 × 12.4 × 9.8 cm (5 1/8 × 4 7/8 × 3 7/8 in.)
Classification
sugar bowl
Department
Arts of the Americas
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
136987
About the Artist
New England Glass Company · 1818–1888
**The New England Glass Company: Pioneers of American Flint Glass** The New England Glass Company was established on February 16, 1818, in East Cambridge, Massachusetts, by a quartet of prominent local businessmen: Amos Binney, Edmund Munroe, Daniel Hastings, and Deming Jarves. Jarves, drawing on his dry goods background and talent for recruiting Europe's finest cutters, served as operational man...