Sugar bowl: C.16.3 & A-2009

Current Location: In storage

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Description

Bone china, slip-cast, decorated externally with pale yellow glaze, painting/printing in bright blue and yellow enamels, and gilt; part of a coffee set C.16.1-5-2009

Bone china, slip-cast, with clear and pale yellow glazes, painted (probably) in royal blue and yellow enamels, and gilded. The bowl is of squat urn-shape with a shallow incurved shoulder, and two loop handles, standing on a low foot. The shallow domed cover has an oval ring handle. The bowl is decorated below the shoulder with geometrical-cum-star motifs in royal blue, yellow, and gold. The outer edges of the handles and knob are entirely gilded, and there is a narrow gold band round the edge of the foot, and at the junction of the foot and bowl

Notes

History note: Given to Ernest and Freda Walton, as a wedding present in 1934 by John and Elizabeth Cockcroft

Legal notes

Given by the Walton Family

Measurements and weight

Height: 12 cm
Width: 13.6 cm

Relative size of this object

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Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.