Sugar Bowl
date: label: date made
content: ca 1841
notes: label: Description
content: Raised kylix-form sugar bowl with domed cover topped by a cast swan finial, its head down and wings outstretched. Shallow circular bowl has two, large, cast floral circular wreath handles tied to cornucopia-shape supports extending from bulging lobed sections at opposite sides of body, and a flared pedestal of overlapping waterleaves or acanthus atop a flat circular base. Chased and repousse clusters of fruit and flowers encircle the cover while neoclassical arabesques with birds and swans separated by circular masks are around upper body. Cover is engraved in front of swan with McKim crest above the gothic or Old English letters "H M\c K". Outside of base struck with maker's mark and Baltimore Assay Office marks. Centerpunch on underside of body. From tea and coffee service, DL*382527-DL*382529.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
label: place used
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
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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 Mrs. William Duncan McKim
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.382527
label: catalog number
content: 382527
label: accession number
content: 161740
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bowl, sugar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 3/8 in x 11 1/8 in x 6 5/8 in; 18.7325 cm x 28.2575 cm x 16.8275 cm