Collection Highlights
View from Cozzen's Hotel Near West Point, N.Y.
Date:
1863
Object Number:
S-189
Medium:
Oil on canvas
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Sugar bowl with lid
Object Number:
1939.546ab
Date:
1816-1818
Medium:
Silver
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. ( 24.1 x 16.5 x 14 cm )
Silver Weight: 25 oz (troy) 7 dwt (788 g)
Description:
Wrought silver sugar bowl; round bulbous body with an applied vertical band stamped with floral decoration around the base; on a splayed foot, set on a square base above four hairy claw and ball feet; sides of body flared to an applied, roller-die basket-weave band; applied, convex shoulder above band, with applied vertical lip stamped with a floral band; two chased ram's head handlesockets below two cast and chased heart shaped scroll and ball handles; round domed lid with a chased rose and leaf finial; no maker's mark.
Gallery Label:
This sugar bowl was part of a tea and coffee service paired with a pitcher assembled by the original owners, James (1751-1836) and Dolley Madison (1768-1849), and may have been one of two silver services regularly used at the family's Virginia estate, Montpelier, where the couple periodically lived after Madison's presidency. It is widely believed that Dolley Madison pawned the pitcher and service in 1848 to help relieve the debt of her son from her first marriage, John Payne Todd (1792-1852). The service was then acquired by James C. McGuire, Sr. (d. 1888), the executor of Todd's estate, and later donated to the N-YHS by his granddaughter.
Credit Line:
Gift of Miss Mary Madison McGuire
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
