Object Record
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Metadata
Object ID # |
1961.038.028ab |
Object Name |
Bowl, Sugar |
Title |
Silver Lustreware Sugar Bowl |
Lexicon category |
4: T&E For Materials |
Date |
19th-century |
Made |
Unknown |
Place of Origin |
England, United Kingdom? |
Description |
Silver lustre earthenware sugar bowl (a) with lid (b). The lid has a lift knob. The bowl has a round, short pedestal-style base. The bowl now has old chips out of it, so that the earthenware core can be observed. The bowl has a moulded pattern of a one-cm wide band of reverse "s" curves. The lid echoes the same decorative band, and has another band of slightly-curved ridges to it. See RELATED for its matching cream pitcher and tea pot. |
Provenance |
Brought to Canada from Ireland by an unknown family, and later given to the Henry Rixon family of Owen Sound, Grey County. Eleanor Rixon told museum staff it likely was used as early as 1830? Eleanor Rixon resided in Owen Sound, Grey County, but her parents and maternal grandparents previously resided in the Leith area. Her grandparents were Mr. and Mrs. Adam Ainslie (who came from Scotland and Galt before settling at the Lakeshore Line). Her father was Henry Rixon, an Englishman who emigrated c.1860. He worked for a time at Leith and in the late 19th-century the Rixons moved to Owen Sound, where Mr. Rixon had a lumbering business. |
Collection |
Food Service Tools & Equipment |
Material |
Earthenware/Lustreware/Glaze |
Dimensions |
H-14.1 inches |
Found |
Owen Sound, Grey County |
People |
Rixon, Henry |
Function |
It is a sugar bowl and lid, and Victorian ones were quite large compared to modern sugar bowls. Silver lustrewares were "poor man's silver" in the 19th-century, as they looked very much like silver. |