Cream Bowl

Name/Title

Cream Bowl

Entry/Object ID

2016.14.1

Description

Hand-blown large glass bowl with flat, smooth base and spouted lip for pouring.

Use

Used to separate cream from milk, this glass dairy cream milk pan has a rolled lip with a spout and a rough pontil scar at the base. This scar is where the metal rod used in glass blowing—a pontil—was broken away from the glass object, indicating the piece was blown freehand.

Made/Created

Date made

circa 1860

Dimensions

Depth

6 in

Diameter

23 in

Material

Glass