Sugar Bowl
date: label: date made
content: 1885 - 1925
label: date made
content: 1885 - 1925
name: label: maker
content: Meriden Britannia Company
notes: label: Description
content: Two-handled, circular urn-shape bowl joined to a flared pedestal on circular molded foot with a two-tiered, trumpet-shape cover topped by a button knop. Beading around middle of cover and on bowl at opening, shoulder, top of pedestal and edge of foot; greek-key patterned band applied below beading at shoulder. Two sprigged S-curve handles. Underside of rounded bottom struck incuse with circular trademark containing a pointed shield with balanced scales bordered by "MERIDEN / B. COMPANY" above "1790". Cover scratched inside near outer edge "1790".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Meriden
label: place used
content: United States: Virginia, Alexandria
topic: label: Subject
content: Beverages
label: Subject
content: Coffee Drinking
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 Miss Katharine M. Reese
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1977.0918.61
label: accession number
content: 1977.0918
label: catalog number
content: 1977.0918.61
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bowl, sugar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver plate (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/4 in x 7 3/4 in x 4 1/4 in; 18.415 cm x 19.685 cm x 10.795 cm