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Accession # 1994.165.78
Designer W.C. Beattie
Designer William Parkin
Maker Reed & Barton
Title Sugar Shell, Brilliant Pattern
Date ca. 1875
Medium Silver plate
Dimensions 6 1/16 x 1 1/2 in. (15.4 x 3.8 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Paul F. Walter
Location Visible Storage: Case 45, Drawer A
Description Undecorated scalloped bowl. Small oval projection at base of handle. Sides of handle flare gradually to rounded crest. Molded decoration begins on lower handle with small flower with two pairs of leaves below whose long stem is intersected by two narrow diagonals. Upper section of handle with continuous narrow border of tripartite leaf motif. Below crest large diagonal tripartite band with undecorated central area, zigzag border above and border of overlapping decorated disks below. In curve of crest above diagonal overall Oriental diaper pattern. Below diagonal, half-sun motif and waving plant stems with long leaves and small flowers against stippled ground. Reverse of handle with identical decoration.