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Covered Sugar Bowl

Dateca. 1795-1819

Attributed to Parks Boyd

OriginAmerica, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

MediumPewter

DimensionsHeight: 4 11/16”; Maximum diameter: 4 11/16”

Credit LineGift of Scott and Debra Duncan

Object number2022-209,a&b

DescriptionCovered sugar dish with a moulded, round lid topped by a squat urn-shaped finial and edged with beading. Its two-tiered flaring body has a band of beading below the rim and along the edge of its moulded, round foot.
Label TextThis unmarked sugar dish is attributed to Parks Boyd by its distinctive lid, found on some of his signed water pitchers. Its body is similar in form to Boyd's salts, which also include mechanically beaded edges, created with a special tool known to have been employed by the best Philadelphia pewterers of the era.