The bowl is of elongated baluster form with flared scallop-edged rim, a wide scalloped-edge shoulder, folliate scroll handles at each end and has a diagonally incised rolled rectangular foot. It is transfer printed in deep blue with a floral rim and shoulders over two tree enclosed scenes: one with a carriage and steam engine, the other with three men cutting down a tree with a house in the background.
sugar bowls
earthenware
incising
molding (forming)
transfer printing
carriages (vehicles)
floral patterns
scenes (depictions)
steam engines (engines)
Earthenware
Transfer Printed
Molded
Incised
Floral
Scenic
Carriage
Steam Engine
Logging
Bowl, Sugar
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
1991.1025 A,B
Unknown
England
6 1/4 x 7 x 4 1/2 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1025A
Title Sugar Bowl Lid Accession Number 1991.1025B
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