Museum Collections
Luce Center
Sugar bowl with lid
Object Number:
1974.27fg
Date:
1896
Medium:
Silver
Dimensions:
Overall: 4 1/2 x 7 7/8 x 5 1/4 in. ( 11.4 x 20 x 13.3 cm )
Marks:
engraved: center front of bowl: "A T M" in script
engraved: on base of bowl: "November 10th 1897" in script
Mark: stamped along bottom around periphery four times incuse: "HOWARD & CO."/ "NEW YORK"/"STERLING" / "1896"
Mark: stamped underside of front
Description:
Cast silver sugar bowl with lid in the Georgian melon pattern; round, squat body with chased lobes decorated with a foliate scroll design; on four cast legs attached to the body with trefoils dropping into paw feet; convex shoulder flared to a scalloped rim with applied cast gadrooning; two simple, seamed scrolled silver handles attached at the body and rim; cast lid with a raised mushroom dome and chased, scrolled foliate design; lobed knob finial; gilt interior; engraved, "A T M" in script on the center front, and "November 10th 1897" in script on the base; makers' marks on base.
Gallery Label:
This sugar bowl with lid was a wedding gift to the donor's parents, Alice Townsend Martin, whose initials are engraved on the service, and Benjamin Brandreth McAlpin, on November 10, 1897.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mr. Townsend M. McAlpin
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.