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.