Sugar Bowl
date: label: date made
content: ca 1785
notes: label: Description
content: Raised, double-bellied or inverted pear-shaped, covered sugar bowl engraved "MB" in conjoined, shaded foliate script on a domed circular foot. Applied pierced gallery and beading at rim; repousse beads around circular foot and edge of the stepped, double-domed cover topped by a pineapple finial. Underside of rounded bottom has a small incuse hexagon next to centerpunch, around which "J•M" in raised script in rounded surround is struck three times; "15-15" and "15-1" faintly incised between stamps. Part of an assembled service (coffeepot, sugar bowl and waste bowl), DL*239176, DL*239178, and DL*239179.
label: Description
content: Mark unindentified; needs further research. Slip of paper stored inside bowl notes attribution to Joseph Moulton II (1724-1795) of Newburyport, MA, but his stamp is rectangular (not rounded) with a four-pointed star (rather than a pellet) between the initials. In addition, neither Moulton nor the Beale family has an obvious Newburyport-Philadelphia connection.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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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 Ellen M. Davis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.239178
label: catalog number
content: 239178
label: accession number
content: 46611
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bowl, sugar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 5/8 in x 4 7/8 in; 19.3675 cm x 12.3825 cm