Sugar bowl
Attributed to Thomas Cains
Possibly at his South Boston Flint Glass Works American
Possibly at Phoenix Glass Works American
The chainlike decoration on this sugar bowl and pitcher (69.167) 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. It appeared again on English glass in the second half of the eighteenth century. Thomas Cains, who came from Bristol, England, was the proprietor of both firms that may have produced these pieces.
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