Collections Moment: Opalescent White Glass Bowl
Category of Object: Glass tableware looks like ceramic
Brief description of
Category: Sargent House Museum has
approximately 33 pieces of “early American period” glassware in its
collections. The punch bowl has a nearly
identical bowl in the Winterthur Museum in Delaware. See accession file #315 for reference.
Description of Object: 3 7/8” H, 8” diameter, opalescent white glass
handpainted floral, footed “punch” bowl.
Personal comments on why presenter chose object or thinks it is important: I choose this object for its special,
outstanding, visual attractiveness. Outstanding,
hand painted, floral decorations both inside and outside. This is a very special piece of early glass
in quality and condition. I consider it
a very elegant example of fine tableware and a rare example, which has been
given to the Sargent House Museum.
Presented by Christina D.
Rafter, Sargent House Museum Board member, June 18, 2015
