Sugar Bowl
date: label: date made
content: ca 1882
label: date used
content: 1882 - 1982
notes: label: Description
content: Two-handled, bell-shaped sugar bowl with domed cover topped by a cast fleur-de-lis knop on a reverse cyma-profile base with boss bottom. Both sides feature a flat-chased, symmetrical design of two umbrella-shaped flowers and serrated leaves springing from a larger tripartite leaf. Angular handles, rectangular in section, have triple-stacked, upturned, tassel-like thumbrests. Bottom underside struck incuse "ROCKFORD / SILVER PLATE CO." in sans serif letters encircling balanced scales with "QUADRUPLE" above and "700" below; "REM" engraved at upper right and "eh" scratched faintly upside down below. Inside cover engraved "MRKM" and "REM". From a three-piece coffee or tea service, 1982.0114.01-.03; coffeepot is a different pattern than the sugar bowl and creamer.
label: Description
content: Maker is Rockford Silver Plate Co. of Rockford, IL, 1882-1956. Successor to Racine Silver Plate Co. of Racine, WI, 1873-1882; became Sheets-Rockford in 1925.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Rockford
label: place used
content: United States: Ohio, Cincinnati
label: place used
content: United States: California, Hemet
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Ruth E. Moore
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0114.02
label: accession number
content: 1982.0114
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0114.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bowl, sugar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plated (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 in x 6 1/8 in x 3 5/8 in; 17.78 cm x 15.5575 cm x 9.2075 cm