Sugar Bowl
date: label: date made
content: ca 1853
label: date made
content: ca 1853 - 1857
name: label: maker; retailer
content: Bailey and Company
notes: label: Description
content: Two-handled, raised globular creamer with overall Chinoiserie and floral repousse chased decoration on a double-domed, circular pedestal foot with flared cover having a downturned, scalloped edge and reclining Oriental man gazing at object in his left hand for finial. Continuous landscape design around body depicts on one side two men in hats, one carrying a lantern on pole, walking towards each other at river's edge amidst five pagodas on both shores, a sampan at left and pine tree in left distance; opposite side has large pine and coconut trees bending over a bridge to form an empty reserve at center. Small, C-curve handles composed of overlapping leaves have bases of flared leaves.
label: Description
content: Rounded underside is struck above and below centerpunch "BAILEY & CO." and "PHILADA." in raised roman letters in rectangles, with "#135" scratched below.
label: Description
content: Part of six-piece coffee and tea service, DL*276317.0001-.0006.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made; place retailed
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
label: place owned
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
label: place owned
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
label: place owned
content: United States: Maryland, Chevy Chase
topic: label: Subject
content: Beverages
label: Subject
content: Coffee Drinking
label: Subject
content: Food Culture
label: Subject
content: Tea Drinking
label: decorative motif
content: Chinese
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: Bequest of Marion Leigh Wells
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.276317.0005
label: catalog number
content: 276317.0005
label: accession number
content: 276317
label: catalog number
content: 276317.1-6
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bowl, sugar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 3/8 in x 8 1/4 in x 5 7/8 in; 18.7325 cm x 20.955 cm x 14.9225 cm