Sugar bowl
Medium
Free-blown glass with applied decoration
Dimensions
9 7/8 x 4 3/8 in. (25.1 x 11.1 cm)
Classification
Sugar bowl
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Keller, in memory of Gretchen Keller, 2000
Accession Number
2000.509.2a, b
About the Artist
New England Glass Company|South Boston Flint Glass Works · 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...