Sugar bowl
Staffordshire, England
1810-1830
Measurements
5-3/8 in x 6-1/4 in x 5-1/4 in
Materials
Enameled and glazed white earthenware (pearlware)
Credit Line
Historic Odessa Foundation, The David Wilson Mansion, Inc.
Accession Number
1971.704
Inscription
A small four-petaled flower is impressed into the outside bottom.
Condition Notes
The handles have been removed from both ends, and where they once attached has been ground down and filled. These areas are now discolored. The rim is chipped in two places, and the lid has a chip. The object has overall wear and staining.
Provenance
Ex coll. Mrs. E. Tatnall (Mary Corbit) Warner
Comments
The lidded, ovoid sugar bowl is painted in particularly bright, solid colors of red, blue, green, and yellow. Collectors term this style “Gaudy Dutch,” although it has no link to anything Dutch. More specific, this bowl is in the “grape pattern,” so called because of the many clusters of red grapes. In addition to the large, colorful motifs, the narrow blue bands and deep red stripes along the rim and edges of the body are typical of these wares.
The blue-tinted glaze, used to color the white earthenware body in imitation of fine porcelains, has pooled around the base of the lid finial and elsewhere. Such earthenwares were marketed as pearlware.
