Sugar bowl, 1812–27, Made in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, American, Blown glass with applied decoration, H. 6 3/16 in

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Sugar bowl, 1812–27, Made in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, American, Blown glass with applied decoration, H. 6 3/16 in. ( cm); Diam. 5 1/4 in. ( cm), Glass, Attributed to Thomas Cains (active 1812–ca. 1820), The chainlike decoration on this sugar bowl and pitcher was achieved by applying two parallel threads of glass and then nipping them together to form the connected ovals. This mode of decoration dates back to ancient Roman times and was revived on sixteenth-century Venetian and late-seventeenth-century English glass

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