Museum Collections

Wrought silver sugar bowl with lid; oval in plan with gadrooning around the lower body; upper body flares to chased and repousséd decorative band of scallops and flowers; convex stepped shoulder with applied, vertical die-rolled foliate band around the rim; on an oval stepped base with die-rolled, applied foliate band around the vertical footring; lid oval in plan, flat at edges and raised to oval dome with elaborate cast finial in the shape of a floral bouquet; two c-curve hollow handles, made in vertical halves, circular in section, swelling towards crimped centers, with bulbous thumbpieces, a single upper terminal and a double lower terminal; plain, bright-cut engraved, "H" (for Hendricks) in the front center; maker's marks on the base.