Sugar Bowl
- Description
- Two-handled, rectangular, seamed sugar bowl with raised-panel, bulging sides on four ball feet; flared, rectangular cover is topped by an acorn finial. Body is engraved "DFB" in conjoined foliate script and has die-rolled bands of eight-petaled flowers and snowflake motifs at top and bottom of its incurved shoulder and narrower band of leaves at base. Spurred, right-angled, C- and S-curve handles are rectangular in section. Underside is struck incuse twice "P.GARRETT" in raised serif letters in a rectangle and incised "21, 2". No centerpunch. From a three-piece tea service, DL*303918.0001-.0003.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1815 - 1825
- place made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Physical Description
- silver (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 7 in x 8 1/2 in x 4 in; 17.78 cm x 21.59 cm x 10.16 cm
- ID Number
- DL.303918.0002
- catalog number
- 303918.0002
- accession number
- 303918
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Estate of Elizabeth Bunnell
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
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