Collection Highlights
Politicians measuring Lincoln's shoes
Date:
March 5th 1864
Object Number:
PR.010.1864.Politicians
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Luce Center
Sugar bowl with cover
Object Number:
1965.792ab
Date:
1835-1850
Medium:
Glass
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 1/4 x 4 in. ( 18.4 x 10.2 cm )
Description:
Cobalt blue, lead glass; pressed. Sugar bowl and cover; octagonal sugar bowl with flared scalloped rim joined with a wafer to an eight-lobed column on a three-tiered circular base on a square plinth with round turret-like corners, pontil mark on interior; octagonnal ogee-curved domed cover with pointed hexagonal knob.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mrs. F. MacDonald Sinclair (Jennie H. Sinclair)
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
