Sugar Bowl
c. 1790
3 5/8 in. x 3 5/8 in. x 3 5/8 in.
Artist/Maker Unknown,
Unidentified,
Unidentified,
William Adams,
(1748–1831)
Object Type:
Decorative Art
Medium and Support:
earthenware
Credit Line:
Florence Griswold Museum; Gift of the Old Lyme-Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library, from the Evelyn MacCurdy Salisbury Ceramics Collection
Accession Number:
1959.110.a&b
An English, earthenware sugar bowl decorated with a blue transfer-print showing a boy watching two horse eat.
Round, cylindrical-shaped form with an undercut base, the cover overlapping the sides with a circular ridge one-half inch in from the rim and a flat button knop; overall printed country scene with obvious seams; image including horses, a hay rick, thatched buildings, trees, and a person kneeling before the horses; the cover with the same scene;