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Sugar Bowl

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

ca. 1870

GUSN

GUSN-4424

Description

Rectanguloid globular form; white clay body with underglaze blue transfer print design; four architectural scenic reserves surrounded by floral pattern; rectangular mouth receiving rectanguloid slightly domed lid originally with finial handle (missing); lid border of same floral pattern.

Details

Descriptive Terms

sugar bowls
earthenware
vitrification
transfer printing
underglazing
floral patterns
Earthenware
Semi-Vitrified
Staffordshire
Underglazed
Transfer Printed
Floral
BOWL, SUGAR

Associated Building

Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),

Maker

Unknown

Location of Origin

England

Dimensions

4.5 x 4 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler

Accession Number

1977.665AB

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