George Washington Riggs
Sugar Bowl
1800-1810
Physical Qualities
Silver, Overall form with lid: 7 3/8 x 7 1/2 x 3 5/8 in. (18.7 x 19.1 x 9.2 cm) Form without lid: 6 1/4 x 7 1/2 x 3 5/8 in. (15.9 x 19.1 x 9.2 cm) Lid: 2 3/8 x 4 7/8 x 3 1/2 in. (6 x 12.4 x 8.9 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Dudley R. Webb
Object Number
1935.28.2
Jennifer Faulds Goldsborough, "Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Maryland Silver in the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art." Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1975. p. 127, ill.
Inscribed: RECTO: Engraved in script "L [?]" on face of sugar bowl
Markings: Marked underneath bowl "Riggs" "eagle head"
