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A white vessel with two symmetrical handles with blue decorations, heraldry imagery, two figures with light hair. One holding a staff and the other is blindfold and holding scales.
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  • A white vessel with two symmetrical handles with blue decorations, heraldry imagery, two figures with light hair. One holding a staff and the other is blindfold and holding scales.
  • A white vessel with two symmetrical handles with blue decorations, heraldry imagery, two figures with light hair. One holding a staff and the other is blindfold and holding scales.

Unknown Maker, Chinese export

Sugar Bowl
Now On View

Maker

Unknown Maker, Chinese export

Culture

Chinese export

Title

Sugar Bowl

Year

ca. 1800

Medium

  • Porcelain with underglaze blue,
  • glaze,
  • and overglaze enamels

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Porcelain with underglaze blue,
  • glaze,
  • and overglaze enamels

Materials

porcelain, glaze

Dimensions

14.5 x 14.8 x 11.4 cm (5 11/16 x 5 13/16 x 4 1/2 inches) (assembled)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of William H. G. Temple

Object Number

26.064

Type

  • Ceramics

Publications

  • Journal

Rethinking the Romans: New Views of Ancient Sculpture

Exhibition notes ; No. 13. Contributions by: Georgina E. Borromeo, Kent Severson, Mary Hollinshead, Crispin Corrado Goulet. Alt Author: Borromeo, Georgina.

Exhibition History

Trading Earth
Ceramics, Commodities, and Commerce
Apr 09, 2022 – Jul 20, 2025

Label copy

Over centuries, as demand for sugar increased, the locations where sugar cane was grown expanded, as did the number of enslaved humans forced to cultivate this labor-intensive crop. Originating in New Guinea, sugar cane was brought to India and then the Caribbean, where the Dominican Republic led production in the early 1500s. A century later, sugar cane became the base of the economy in Dutch-colonized Brazil, where more than 500,000 Africans had been shipped through the Atlantic slave trade to plant, tend, harvest, and process the crop.

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Apr 15, 2014
Mrs. Alexis B. Hafken Farago Bridge Gallery
Jan 02, 2014

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Unknown Maker, Chinese export
Sugar Bowl, ca. 1800
Porcelain with underglaze blue, glaze, and overglaze enamels
14.5 x 14.8 x 11.4 cm (5 11/16 x 5 13/16 x 4 1/2 inches) (assembled)
Gift of William H. G. Temple 26.064

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