Sugar Bowl
date: label: date made
content: ca 1870 - 1880
label: date made
content: ca 1875
notes: label: Description
content: Two-handled, round-bottom, flared or trumpet-shape sugar bowl on four, square-section, incurved legs, reeded on their fronts and attached to body by masks of a bearded man; domed cover has a cast knop of an upright spiraling horn and seahorse. Both sides of body are flat chased with trapezoidal reserves flanked by compound leaves and spiral scrolls. Hollow, square-section peaked handles have split-scroll upper terminals, ball-tipped, inward-hook lower terminals and flared rosette sockets. Underside of slightly convex bottom is struck incuse "930", "TAUNTON. / [S]ILVER PLATE Co." and "TRIPLE PLATE.", all in serif letters. Cover not marked. From a 5-piece coffee and tea service, DL*209041.0001-.0005.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Taunton
label: place used
content: United States: Massachusetts, Cambridge
topic: label: Subject
content: Tea Drinking
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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 Mildred Armistead Baker Ruttencutter, in memory of her mother Margaret Armistead Appleton Baker
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.209041.0001
label: catalog number
content: 209041.0001
label: accession number
content: 209041
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bowl, sugar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: electroplated (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 in x 6 5/8 in x 5 in; 17.78 cm x 16.8275 cm x 12.7 cm