bowl, sugar
date: label: date made
content: 1865-1870
name: label: retailer
content: Tiffany & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Two-handled, covered, spherical sugar bowl on circular foot ring; upper half of body has a flat-chased scrollwork band with two circular reserves, one engraved with the monogram "CEE", and is joined to the plain lower half by a denticulate-patterned midband. Low-domed cover topped by a large, cast raspberry finial has a flat-chased strap- and scrollwork medallion. Two bracket handles have a scrolled sprig at center and outward-curving arms ending in fleur-de-lis attachments. Underside of slightly convex bottom struck around centerpoint, "TIFFANY & CO." and "550 BROADWAY" encircling "1516", "QUALITY / 925[-10]00" flanked on both sides by a gothic or Old English "M", and "2749".
label: Description
content: Cover not marked.
label: Description
content: Made by John C. Moore & Son for Tiffany & Co., both of New York, NY; the above mark used, 1865-1870. Moore & Son (John Chandler Moore and Edward Chandler Moore) was in operation, 1849-1868; they produced exclusively for Tiffany, which purchased the company in 1868 (Edward C. Moore then became head of Tiffany's silver department, a position he held until his death in 1891.)
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made; place retailed
content: United States: New York, New York City
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.300563
label: catalog number
content: 300563
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bowl, sugar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 7 1/4 in x 5 1/4 in; 13.97 cm x 18.415 cm x 13.335 cm