Sugar Bowl
date: label: date made
content: ca 1790 - 1840
notes: label: Description
content: Circular, japanned bowl with a wire-rimmed, flared body having two folded seams that is soft-soldered to a plain-edged, rounded, single-piece foot, and a plain-edged, rounded cover topped by a small, triple-scroll loop. Painted decoration features a ring of four red circles separated by green chevron strokes and pairs of yellow dots on the cover, and a similar band around the rim of four pairs of red circles, each half-covered with alizarin, separated by opposing green chevron strokes, some with yellow overstrokes. Yellow rick-rack or ribbon borders around edge of cover and foot. No marks.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Berlin
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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 Kenneth E. Jewett
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.257491.0086
label: catalog number
content: 257491.0086
label: accession number
content: 257491
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bowl, sugar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron wire (rim material)
label: Physical Description
content: asphaltum (exterior decoration material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (exterior decoration material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 5/8 in x 4 3/8 in; 9.2075 cm x 11.1125 cm