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Ca. 1825 Pennsylvania Toleware Sugar
19th C. American covered sugar bowl. Ca. 1820-1830. Probably Pennsylvania. A unique design with uncommon depth and transparency. Yellow edged flowers accented with sienna and flanked by yellow tendrils overlap flower forms with blue fingered off into dark violet, all beneath yellow and black-veined green leaves with sienna buds. The decorator’s fingerprints are partially visible where the colors were blended. In contrast to the balanced designs on the lids of most sugar bowls, this lid is asymmetrical with a single large curving flower shoot. To quote Martin and Tucker, “Covered sugar bowls were items put to hard use and few have survived [in good condition].”
$725
