Sugar Bowl
date: label: date made
content: 1859
label: engraved date
content: 1859
notes: label: Description
content: Two-handled, seamed, straight-sided oval container with flared shoulder and domed oval cover topped by cast acorns; flat bottom set in. Symmetrical bright-cut decoration on both sides features a pointed shield amidst festoons, one is engraved "MEA" in conjoined foliate script and the other "1859". Additional garlands and sprigs follow the right-angled handles, almost square in section, with C-curve ends. Rollerwork and applied beading around cover, rim, shoulder, and top and bottom of body. Bottom underside is struck with four incuse marks for "GALE & WILLIS". Part of a three-piece tea service, DL*64.0138A-C.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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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 Josephine Arthur Rohrer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.64.0138B
label: catalog number
content: 64.0138B
label: accession number
content: 250794
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bowl, sugar
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/2 in x 8 5/8 in x 4 in; 16.51 cm x 21.9075 cm x 10.16 cm