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PRESSED OCTAGONAL FOOTED SUGAR BOWL WITH COVER, de

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PRESSED OCTAGONAL FOOTED SUGAR BOWL WITH COVER, deep brilliant cobalt blue, urn-form bowl raised on a short octagonal stem and plain circular foot with rough pontil mark, stepped cover with eight panels continuing across the acorn-form finial. Probably Pittsburgh . 1840-1860. 8 3/4" high overall, 5 7/8" diameter rim overall, 3 3/4" diameter foot .
Reference: Elsholz, lot #1369, this being the actual example.
Rose/Corning, No. 295, this being the actual example.
Provenance: The Duff & Molly Allen Collection. Collector's Sales & Service , 3/27/94, lot #748, $1,100. Ex-coll: Gladys W. & Paul C. Richards. Richard A. Bourne Co., Inc., 11/17/87, lot #1369, $1,800. Ex-coll: William J. Elsholz (no label). Exhibited Toledo Museum of Art, 1963, No. 216. Exhibited Corning Museum of Glass, 1954, No. 295. Katherine Woodward, 7/12/52
Note: An outstanding example with an impeccable provenance and exhibition record

Excellent condition, bowl with only a few light flakes around the upper rim and two minute flakes to rim points, cover with two shallow chips under the rim and another to the outer rim

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