Bowl, Sugar
- Object Name:
- Bowl, Sugar
- Object ID:
- 1914.014.101 a-b
- Place of Origin:
- China
- Date:
- 1785-1800
- Description:
- Sugar Bowl with Cover. Porcelain, floral. Bulbous sugar bowl, circular in section. Foot and rim both slightly flared. Two crossed strap handles, slightly ribbed and terminating in sprigs. Domed cover with fruit finial accompanied by relief leafage. Single and paired, vertical grooves molded in outer surface of sides and cover; on the latter the grooves radiate from the center. Painted, polychrome decoration; relief ornament in orange. Cover and top of outer surface of bowl outlined by an orange border next to which is a pattern composed of an undulating orange line and orange and blue dots. Slightly off-center floral design obverse and reverse with pink flowers, orangle bees and green leaves. Orange, blue and pink sprigs on sides and cover. Traces of gilding on finial. Matching pitcher (1914.14.100).
- Material:
- Ceramic
Porcelain - Dimensions:
- H-5.75 D-4.4 Dia-4.1 inches
- Provenance:
- Ceramics collected by Martha E. Durgin (1833-1916) of Concord, NH. She began collecting in the late 1880s and donated the collection to the Society in 1914.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Martha E. Durgin
- People:
- Durgin, Martha E. (1833-1916)
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