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Sugar Bowl

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

1865-1889

GUSN

GUSN-6159

Description

Blue and white transfer print in "Fruit Girl" pattern; the fruit girl is in the bottom of each piece; elaborate interior border of alternating flowers and peacocks; repeated on outside border of teacup and sugar bowl. .2) Deep sugar bowl tapering down to bulbous curve and foot.

Details

Descriptive Terms

sugar bowls
earthenware
vitrification
transfer printing
flowers (plants)
floral patterns
figure- and animal-derived motifs
girls
peafowl
Earthenware
Semi-Vitrified
Staffordshire
Fruit Girl
Transfer Printed
Peacock
Flower
BOWL, SUGAR

Pattern

Fruit Girl

Associated Building

Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),

Maker

Unknown

Location of Origin

England

Dimensions

2.5 (H), 4.375 (diameter) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Ralph May

Accession Number

1971.1164.2

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