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Sugar bowl with cover
Sugar bowl, deep pinkish-cream coloured earthenware, standing on a rectangular straight-sided ribbed foot-rim, rectangular body with bulbous fluted sides, spreading collar at the shoulder, straight-sided ribbed neck, a moulded ropework pattern around the body below the shoulder, rectangular domed cover with fluting around the top of the cover, the finial broken off and missing; the exterior body of the sugar bowl and the upperside of the cover covered with silver lustre, this then decorated using silver resist techniques with the fluting highlighted with cream stripes, a pattern of interlacing lines around the upper body of the bowl, a cream band around the moulded ropework, a pattern of vine leaves and grapes around the shoulder of the bowl and the sides of the cover, a silver lustre band around the foot-rim. The rim of the cover chipped.