Sugar Bowl
date: label: date made
content: 1777-1800
notes: label: Description
content: Small, plain, vertically-sided bowl on molded, flared base with low-domed cover topped by ball knop. Four pseudo-hallmarks struck on outside of bowl below flared rim (left to right; all effaced), "TD", Britannia seated, lion's head erased and dagger or sword pointed up, all in clipped-corner rectangles.
label: Description
content: Maker is Thomas Danforth III (1756-1849) of Middletown and Stepney (Rocky Hill), CT; working 1777-1818. He opened a shop in Philadelphia circa 1806/7 and was joined by fellow CT pewtersmith Blakeslee Barnes (or Blakslee Barns, 1781-1823) in circa 1807/9. Danforth returned permanently to CT aorund 1811. Danforth is thought to have stopped using pseudo-hallmarks before 1800.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Stepney
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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 Dr. Joseph H. Kler
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0027.25
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0027.25
label: accession number
content: 1986.0027
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bowl, covered
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pewter (bowl, cover material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 5/8 in x 3 3/8 in; 9.2075 cm x 8.5725 cm