Sugar Caster
date: label: date made
content: 1780 - 1810
notes: label: Description
content: Baluster-shaped caster on a slender, flared and molded, circular pedestal base with screwed-on, thimble-shaped, perforated cover having a pawn-shaped finial, three rows of pierced backslants and one of backward S curves, and ridged band at rim. Incised lines at top of cover, base of tall cylindrical neck and lower half of body. No marks.
label: Description
content: Casters with shaped piercings (versus holes) are thought to have been used with sugar rather than pepper or spices.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Europe
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Food
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Gertrude D. Webster
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.391782A
label: catalog number
content: 391782A
label: accession number
content: 71679
objectType: label: Object Name
content: caster
label: Object Type
content: Shaker
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 5/8 in x 2 1/8 in; 11.7475 cm x 5.3975 cm