Silver Luster Sugar Bowl
notes: label: Description
content: This sugar bowl was part of a silver luster tea set made in England during the early 19th century. Lusterware was created by adding metallic oxides as an over glaze to ceramics already fired ceramics and firing the objects again at a lower temperature. Adding silver oxide or platinum oxide created a shimmering finish that looked like silver but cost significantly less, allowing middle class citizens access to goods that looked similar to the solid silver tea sets of the upper class.
label: Description
content: The tea service was used by Dorthea de Schweinitz (1891-1980), a researcher and academic who spent her career working on labor relations in her employment for the Pennsylvania State Employment Service, National Labor Relations Board, War Production Board, and the Wage Stabilization Board. She was also active in the movement to preserve historic Georgetown in Washington, DC, which was named a historic district thanks in part to her efforts in 1950.
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England
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content: Home and Community Life: Ceramics and Glass
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content: American Enterprise
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content: Domestic Furnishings
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dorothea deSchweinitz
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CE.75.25Bab
label: accession number
content: 315465
label: catalog number
content: 75.25Bab
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sugar box
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ceramic, earthenware, refined (overall material)