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Porcelain handled sugar bowl. Pink lustre vine and foliate design with superimposed paint on body and cover. Floral molded finial. Lustre accents on handles and finial.
sugar bowls
porcelain
luster (optical property)
hand-painted
overglazing
Bowl, Serving
Bowl, Sugar
Bowl, Sugar
Handwritten on piece of paper inside sugar bowl [on Frank D. Woodbury, M.D. notepaper]: ""About 1915 Miss Mary Sullivan of Turnball? Ave., Wakefield, gave these dishes to F.T.W. Miss Sullivan was housekeeper for Mr. and Mrs. S.K. Williams of Boston. Mrs. Williams gave these dishes to Miss Sullivan to keep for her and they were never claimed. The sugar bowl, pitcher and cups were bought from John Adams when he broke up his house in Boston to go to Washington to be President, and had been in the Williams family. The blue plate, (not an Adams) greatly mended, belonged in the Williams family. R.A.W. July 1925.""
Unknown
5 1/2 x 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of the Misses Ruth A. and Dorcas L. Woodbury
1968.143AB
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