Sugar bowl & cover

Date1770-1785

MediumPorcelain, hard-paste, blue with gilding

DimensionsOverall: Height with lid: 3 13/16; Height without lid: 2 9/16; Diameter: 4 11/16in.

Credit LineGift of Liza and Wallace Gusler in honor of Graham Hood and John Austin for work on the Governor's Palace Project

Object number1999-237,A&B

DescriptionCircular bowl with narrow foot, flared sides with slightly everted rim. Low domed cover with narrow handle that also serves as a foot when the lid is off the bowl. Painted in underglaze blue with landscape/seascape scene. Later, "Clobbered", decoration was added in England comprised of a gilded fence-pattern border.
Label TextThis sugar bowl is of a type known to have been used at the Governor's Palace in Williamsburg during the eighteenth century. Sent from China to England as a typical piece of Chinese export porcelain, it was then embellished in England with the addition of gilding.
ProvenancePurchased from Cavalier Antiques of Buckingham in Buckingham, Virginia