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Sugar Bowl

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

1910

GUSN

GUSN-63954

Description

Sugar bowl with lid. Conforming bulbous body with a twisted c-shaped handle on each side. Slightly domed circular lid with button knop finial.
Molded white clay body with colorless glaze. Over glaze maroon/oxblood ground imitating oriental wares. Over glaze thickly painted floral gilt decoration in pseudo-Japanese style. Diapered border bands.

Details

Descriptive Terms

sugar bowls
gilding
porcelain
Orientalism
Bowl, Serving
Bowl, Sugar
Porcelain
Orientalism
Gilded
Bowl, Sugar

Associated Building

Original to Roseland Cottage (Woodstock, Conn.),

Maker

Minton's (Maker)

Location of Origin

England

Dimensions

4.125 x 5.375 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Margaret Carson Holt

Accession Number

1970.747.2

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