Sugar Bowl
date: label: date made
content: ca 1797
notes: label: Description
content: Raised circular urn-shape bowl engraved with a large shaded foliate script "G" on a flared or trumpet-shape circular pedestal atop a square base with applied sides; double-flared or -trumpeted cover is topped by a large cast ball. Beading at edges of cover, rim, and top and bottom of pedestal. Outside of base to left of monogram is struck "I•M\c/.Mullin" in raised italic roman letters in a rectangle. Underside of pedestal incised "oz 13=5". No centerpunch. Part of a six-piece coffee and tea service, DL*037807-DL*037812.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
label: place used
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Miss Harriet A. Keen
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.037810
label: catalog number
content: 037810
label: accession number
content: 117389
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bowl, sugar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 7/8 in x 4 3/8 in; 25.0825 cm x 11.1125 cm