Bowl, Sugar
- Object Name:
- Bowl, Sugar
- Object ID:
- 2008.038.03.05
- Creator:
- Manhattan Plate Company
- Place of Origin:
- New York, NY
- Date:
- circa 1870
- Description:
- Sugar Bowl. Silver-plated; white metal and brass; Renaissance Revival Style. Rounded urn-shaped body with tapered stem, flared and stepped base and a straight foot. Two reticulated ribbed strap handles. Cast beaded egg and dart molding bands around rim and foot. Two vertical oval laurel wreaths engraved with an old English script "H", hand engraved in center of one wreath. Wreath connected by floral swag band around body. Two double dot bands around rim beneath egg and dart band. Dotted band around top of stem. "MANHATTAN PLATE COMPANY / NEW YORK" and two people, and a coat-of-arms topped with an eagle, stamped in polygon on bottom.
- Material:
- Metal
Silver
Brass - Dimensions:
- H-5.645 W-5.8 inches
- Provenance:
- Gift of Margaret M. Bolus, great-granddaughter of James Riggs Hill. Hill owned the set.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Margaret M. Bolus
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