Description:
English pearlware, oval sugar bowl or sucrier with cover decorated in blue, which was made for the American market. The bowl's shape copies a Castleford-type stoneware form (see the feldspathic stoneware sugar bowl, HD 1381.2). The relief-decorated body is divided into panels by alternating vertically reeded borders and reeded borders with feathered edges, all highlighted in blue. The domed oval lid has a flower finial, over a row of stars on a stippled ground flanked by thin blue lines. The upper part of the body is bordered with interlaced ovals and flowers, over a sloping neck, which ends in a blue-highlighted arcade with stars in circles. The front middle panel has a man's profile in relief, wearing a liberty cap and surrounded by laurel branches and 13 stars, all in blue. There are fan leaves in the upper two corners of the central panel; and the border at the base of the panel has alternating acanthus leaves and inverted bell flowers, all highlighted with a blue band. The opposite side has a similar panel design, with a blue sunburst and thirteen stars over an eagle with a sheaf of arrows in its right talon and olive branch in its left based on the eagle on the American seal issued in 1782, except that the arrows and olive branch are reversed. The simulated bail handles are highlighted in blue.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location) Link to share this object record:
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