Collections: Decorative Arts: Sugar Bowl with Cover

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Sugar Bowl with Cover

• Maker: Tiffany & Company, American, founded 1853
• Medium: Silver
• Place Made: New York, New York, USA
• Dates: ca. 1868
• Dimensions: 5 x 7 1/4 x 5 3/8 in. (12.7 x 18.4 x 13.7 cm)
• Markings: Stamped on bottom: "Tiffany & Company / 1516 / M Quality 925-1000 M / 2740 / 550 Broadway"
• Signature: no signature
• Inscriptions: Inscribed on body on one side of sugar bowl: "Presented to / Peter B. Anderson / by the / Old Dominion Steamship Co. / 1868." Inscribed on the opposite side of the body: a large paddle wheel steamboat.
• Collections: Decorative Arts
• Museum Location: This item is not on view
• Accession Number: 71.144.3a-b
• Credit Line: Gift of Eleanor Keveney in memory of Clarence A. Pratt
• Image: Front, 71.144.3a-b_front.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2004
Tiffany & Company (American, founded 1853). Sugar Bowl with Cover, ca. 1868. Silver, 5 x 7 1/4 x 5 3/8 in. (12.7 x 18.4 x 13.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Eleanor Keveney in memory of Clarence A. Pratt, 71.144.3a-b (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 71.144.3a-b_front.jpg)
• Catalogue Description: Silver sugar bowl (a) with cover (b), one of a five-piece service. Globular body with modified Greek key band around mid-section. Slightly dome-shaped cover with berry finial, angular handles joined to the body with fleur-de-lis terminals. CONDITION: Two dents in cover, four dents in body of bowl.