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Sugar Bowl
Accession # 64.76.3
Maker William Thomson
Title Sugar Bowl
Date ca. 1820
Medium Silver
Dimensions 7 7/8 x 9 1/4 in. (20 x 23.5 cm)
Marks "W. Thomson" [twice, in script]
Inscriptions no inscriptions
Signed no signature
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Chester Dale
Location Visible Storage: Case 22, Shelf D (Silver)
Description Part of a four-piece service. Squat two-handled oval-based silver sugar bowl with separate cover. A seated lamb is finial on dome of cover over repoussé foliate pattern. A continuous band of bundles of wheat is the border around the lip and the bottom and top of the foot of the bowl. Around the shoulder is a repeating band of: bundles of wheat, windmill, beehives, water mill, haystack cover, scythe and hatchel, rake and plow, wagon and homestead. The two handles are plain, curving ear-shaped in rococo spirit. CONDITION: Some bumps.