Sugar Bowl with Cover

1804

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Simon Wedge, Sr.

Sugar Bowl with Cover

1804

Physical Qualities Silver, 8 3/4 × 7 1/4 × 4 5/8 in. (22.2 × 18.4 × 11.7 cm.)

Credit Line Gift of Mrs. John G. Matthews, Henderson, North Carolina

Object Number 1989.344.3

Silver sugar bowl with cover made by Simon Wedge, Sr., c. 1810. Part of a 5-piece coffee/tea set. This sugar bowl's ovoid shape is balanced on either side by Empire-style applied silver handles. It is raised upon an oval stepped pedestal foot. The body is ornamented with deep gadrooning and the domed lid is topped with an urn finial. One side is engraved 'IAR' in a beautiful foliate script.

Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1989; Mrs. John G. Matthews, Henderson, North Carolina

Inscribed: Engraved monogram "IAR" (almost illegible)

Markings: Stamped letters "S", "W", eagle's head facing left inside an oval (considered his earliest mark)