Bowl, Sugar

Object Name:

Bowl, Sugar

Object ID:

1984.049.03

Date:

1858

Description:

Bowl, Sugar. Silver plated over white base metal. Vase shaped body, with constricted and slightly flared neck, two looped handles, on a round pedestal base. Lid is bell shaped with separate cast flower finial attached with a screw and plated wing nut. Repousee work in a floral design on lid. Neck of vessel has a single, rounded band. Body of vessel is decorated with repousse flowers. Cast handles are hollow and decorated with scrolls and flower. Cast decoration on base of pedestal is of twigs and leaves. Seam marks visible at rim, juncture of body and neck, down centers of handles, at handle junctures, at juncture of base and body, at center of base and at juncture of base and decoration. One of a five piece tea service (1984.49.1-.5).

Material:

Metal
Silver

Dimensions:

H-9.375 W-6.9 D-4.875 inches

Provenance:

A teacher and principal of the Female Department of the Literary and Scientific Institution in New London, Mary Jane Prescott (1821-1894) received this tea set from her students as a wedding present. She married Rev. Lucian Hayden (1808-1896) in 1858. The couple moved to Indianapolis by 1870, where Lucian served as Superintendent and Mary served as Principal of another Female Institute. They had one child, Mary P., who died young.
The tea set was delivered by Mildred Crockett Tunis (1900-1993) of New London N.H., mother of the donor, Mary Jane Tunis-Schneider of Albany N.Y. Mildred's grandmother, Sarah Elizabeth Prescott Henry (1828-1891), was the younger sister of Mary Jane Prescott. Their father was noted musical instrument maker, Abraham Prescott (1789-1858) of Deerfield & Concord, N.H.

Credit Line:

Gift of Mary Jane Tunis-Schneider

People:

Prescott, Mary Jane (1821-1894), Hayden, Lucian (1808-1896), Nichols, M. A., Cheney, Melissa, Trussell, S. E., Green, P. J., Greene, Sarah, Baldwin, L. G., Flagg, Lucy A., Scales, Lissie A., Haley, Augusta C., Gove, Hellen E., Gove, Maria A., Jewell, Minnie C., Sinclair, Lissy M., Fisher, Ellen E., Todd, Sarah E., Burpee, A. E., Westgate, Hellen, Hurvey, Mary A., McCutchins, L., Jewell, Carrie, Stacy, Horace, Young, S. S., Colby, H. L., Martin, George K., Somes, A. P., Scales, John, Atwood, Solomon D., Pollard, George E., Smith, H. K., Tilton, A. V., Rowe, Charles R., Dinsmoor, Daniel S., Pillsbury, Charles A. (1842-1899), Flagg, W. L., Fellows, H. A., Rawson, M. C., Davis, A. L., Carter, M. O., Emerson, J. J., Hall, S. E., Clark, A. B., Gilchrist, S. Jennie, Brown, J. E., Smiley, A. L., Ambrose, M. J., Brown, M. L., Craft, S. E., Henry, Sarah E. (1828-1891), Crockett, Esther M., Tunis, Mildred C. (1900-1993), Tunis-Schneider, Mary Jane B., Gates, Arabella Maria Belle (1840-1870), Moulton, Clarence F. (1837-1922), Haley, C. Augusta (1840-1896), Burtt, Angelina M. (1837-1865), Currier, Mary A. (1832-1912)

Subjects:

Teachers