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IMPORTANT NEW YORK STATE FREE-BLOWN AND THREADED S

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IMPORTANT NEW YORK STATE FREE-BLOWN AND THREADED SUGAR BOWL WITH BALL COVER, aquamarine, bulbous urn-form body with a wide, nearly flat, flared rim, applied threading from rim to upper body, two bold applied strap-type handles with medial ribs and generous curls, wide rough pontil mark under the base, fitted with a slightly bluer free-blown ball cover with a pontil-marked knop finial. Along with a copy of the 1990 Skinner auction catalog with this bowl on the cover. Attributed to the Saratoga, NY, Mountain Glass Works. 1845-1865. 7 3/4" high overall, 5 3/8" high rim, 8 1/2" wide overall, 4 3/4" diameter rim, 4 1/2" diameter body .
Reference: Published McKearin Am. Glass, pl. 69, fig. 6.
See Antiques/American Glass, vol. 1, p. 24, fig. 2, for a nearly identical example from the Melvin P. Billups collection.
Provenance: The Duff & Molly Allen Collection. Skinner, Inc., 10/6/90, lot #780, $3,520. Ex-coll: George S. McKearin. American Art Association Anderson Galleries, The Private Collection of George S. McKearin at Public Auction, 4/22/1931, lot #48, $125. Exhibited Third International Antiques Exposition, Grand Central Palace, 1931, catalog #241
Note: This sugar bowl represents a fairly naive yet extremely bold and expressive example of American Folk Art in glass by an unidentified New York State artisan. Two additional examples, undoubtedly produced by the same blower, feature nearly identical vase-like forms, threaded necks, bold handles, and knopped ball covers. The first was sold at the Anderson Galleries' 1934 dispersal of the William Mitchell Van Winkle collection, lot #133, where it reached $200; its current whereabouts is unknown. The second, from the Billups collection referenced above, now resides in the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, a gift of Mr. Billups in memory of his wife, Clarice Marston Billups

Undamaged except for a 1/4" and 1/2" loss to the lower threading, expected usage wear to the rim, handles, and body

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