Bowl, Sugar

Title:

Mount Vernon, The Seat of the Late Gen'l Washington

Object Name:

Bowl, Sugar

Object ID:

1914.014.295 a-b

Creator:

Birch, William

Place of Origin:

Staffordshire, England

Date:

1818-1830

Description:

Sugar Bowl w/ Cover. Dark blue, transfer-printed earthenware. Pearlware. "Mount Vernon, The Seat of the Late Gen'l Washington" pattern. Helmet-shaped, elongated, octagonal body with curving sides; rectangular, rounded, convex molded base; projecting, curved rectangular shoulder, and a scalloped rim; and two scrolled handles with molded foliate ornaments on top. Domed, stepped rectangular cover with domed, rectangular finial with scalloped outline and incised ornament. Scene, obverse and reverse, show Mount Vernon with George Washington, horse and groom in foreground surrounded by scrolls. Background surface covered with flowers, leaves and scrolls. Narrow decorative bands on inner and outer edges of rim and surrounding edge of cover. Printed mark on bottom: "MOUNT VERNON / the seat of the late/ GEN l WASHINGTON" in oval scrolled cartouche. Paper label taped to bottom reads "DURGIN" with "L775" written in pencil.

Material:

Ceramic
Earthenware - Transfer-printed

Dimensions:

H-5.8 W-6.9 D-4.3 inches

Provenance:

Collected by Martha Durgin (b.1833) of Concord, NH. She probably began her collection in the late 1880s-early 1890s.

Source of view: painting by William Birch, engraved by S. Seymour, published in 1804.

Credit Line:

Gift of Martha E. Durgin

People:

Durgin, Martha E. (1833-1916), Birch, William

Subjects:

Flowers, Memorials, Mount Vernon, VA