Sugar Bowl
date: label: date made
content: 1835-1840
notes: label: Description
content: Two-handled, octagonal or panel-sided, vase-shaped, covered sugar bowl on conforming, ogee-stepped pedestal base with flared octagonal collar and incurved neck. Plain pawn-shaped cover topped by ball finial. Two, spurred, S- and C-scroll, D- or ear-shaped handles. Maker's mark stamped incuse on underside of inverted pear-shaped body. Finish completely worn off cover and partially off body. Upper join of one handle separated from body. From a sugar bowl and creamer set, DL*311709 and DL*311714.
label: Description
content: Maker is Leonard, Reed & Barton of Taunton, MA. Founded by Gustavus Leonard, Henry F. Reed, and Charles E. Barton as successor to Taunton Britannia Manufacturing Company in 1835; became Reed & Barton in 1840. Marked panel-sided coffee- and teapots matching sugar bowl DL*311709 and creamer DL*311714 are known.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Taunton
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Miss Elizabeth S. Stevens
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.311709
label: catalog number
content: 311709
label: accession number
content: 64443
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bowl, sugar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/2 in x 7 1/4 in x 4 3/8 in; 19.05 cm x 18.415 cm x 11.1125 cm