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Collection
Heritage Center Collection
Title
Sugar Bowl
Object ID
G.01.35.19a-b
Collection
Heritage Center Collection
Title
Sugar Bowl
Description
Small molded sugar bowl (A) with fitted lid (B), of white-bodied china. Bulbous pear shaped body has leaf molded exterior and four sagging lobes that bulge at the base. Two applied rustic handles. Decorated with dark blue on upper 1/3 of bowl. Gold-painted highlights on one side only, on handles and embossed leaves at sides. On side of body in stamped, gold lettering is: "Souvenir/ of/ Lancaster/ Pa."
Fitted, domed lid (B) is molded with foliate inspiration with rustic handle/finail.
Stamped underneath in gold is a crown over shield witht the monogram of "TGC"(?) The number "12" also stamped in gold.
Provenance
Donor believes this set was purchased at Woolworth's store in Lancaster.
Year Range From
1900
Year Range To
1914
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
DAC
Storage Wall
West Wall
Storage Cabinet
Unit 35
Storage Shelf
Shelf 1
Subcategory
Food Service T&E
Object Name
Bowl, Sugar
Material
Clay, Glaze, Paint
Height (in)
3.5
Width (in)
4.5
Dimension Details
Width includes handle.
Condition
Excellent
Condition Date
2014-05-08
Object ID
G.01.35.19a-b
Place of Origin
Germany
Credit
Gift of Dorothy Mowery Smith, Heritage Center Collection
Accession Number
G.01.35.
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Collection
Heritage Center Collection
Title
Sugar Bowl
Object ID
G.81.7
Date Range
Late 19th c.
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Collection
Heritage Center Collection
Title
Sugar Bowl
Description
Sugar bowl with lid, hard-paste eathenware has white clay body hand-decorated with cobalt blue. Squat, bulbous body sits on foot ring; pot-belly sides have a large beaded shoulder leading to a narrowed neck and finishing with an outward flaring rim w/ coggled edge. Four or five blue bands painted while on the wheel and remainder painted freehand. Bulbous section alternates with two different leaf designs suspended from the blue-painted shoulder bead. Large round dots are spaced between each leaf. Coggled edge is blue and top of rim has a leaf form painted in two rows. The domed lid has a bee skep finial painted blue, a wide blue strip at botom edge of lid and four leaves in mid-section of same two designs as on bulbous body. Clear glaze over all.
Small "S" impressed underneath at side, perhaps signifying the potter.
Continental Europe, perhaps Spain or Italy
Date Range
Late 19th c.
Year Range From
1880
Year Range To
1900
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
DAC
Storage Wall
West Wall
Storage Cabinet
Unit 35
Storage Shelf
Shelf 1
Subcategory
Food Service T&E
Object Name
Bowl, Sugar
Material
Clay, Glaze, Paint
Height (in)
5.5
Diameter (in)
5.225
Dimension Details
Height of bowl only is 4.5".
Condition
Good
Condition Date
2014-05-12
Condition Notes
Good 3/8" long chip at coggled rim edge showing a very white clay which suggest a later date. Wear and soil at bottom and soil scattered over entire piece. Overall crazing.
Object ID
G.81.7
Credit
Gift of Florence Starr Taylor in memory of Annie Mottern Taylor, Heritage Center Collection
Accession Number
G.81
Images
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