Sugar Bowl
date: label: date made
content: ca 1826
notes: label: Description
content: Two-handled, covered, raised circular sugar bowl with twelve-lobed bulbous lower body accented by faceted diamonds on a domed and stepped circular pedestal base; one lobe is engraved "SM" in small, faint script. Tiered upper body and repousse chased cover, which is topped by a cast basket of fruits and flowers. Cast convex, symmetrical floral patterned rims at shoulder and top of pedestal; die-rolled bands of matching decoration at opening and base. Hollow, reeded S-curve handles sprout from anthemion volutes, the upper terminals with a five-petaled flower at sides. Centerpunch on underside of rounded bottom. Underside of base is struck "W. Thomson" in raised script in a stepped rectangle and scratched "26 11". Handwritten note giving history stored inside. From cream and sugar set, DL*62.0248-.0249.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
label: place used
content: United States: Connecticut, Hartford
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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 William Elderkin Huntington
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.62.0248
label: catalog number
content: 62.0248
label: accession number
content: 1979.0955
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bowl, sugar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 9 5/8 in x 6 in; 21.59 cm x 24.4475 cm x 15.24 cm