Sugar Bowl
date: label: date made
content: 1906
notes: label: Description
content: Raised, spiral-lobed, compressed globular, open sugar bowl with Chinoiserie decoration, including two cast and applied S-curve dragon handles and ten chased and repousse panels on body depicting bamboo, peonies, flowering prunus branches and dragons, all on a finely-textured ground; Oriental scenes on two side panels feature a scholar seated at a rock opposite another scholar seated at a table. Narrow cylindrical collar or opening. Slightly concave bottom is struck on underside with two marks, "TC" and a Chinese ideogram, both in rounded rectangles. Part of a four-piece service, DL*62.0334A-D.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: China: Shanghai, Shanghai
label: place owned; place used
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
topic: label: Subject
content: Beverages
label: Subject
content: Tea Drinking
label: Subject
content: China Trade
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wallace Dunn, Jr., in memory of Lillian Lash and Arthur Wallace Dunn
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.62.0334D
label: catalog number
content: 62.0334D
label: accession number
content: 241778
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bowl, sugar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 5/8 in x 7 3/8 in x 4 3/8 in; 9.2075 cm x 18.7325 cm x 11.1125 cm