Smaller Silver Bowls were originally made with covers for sugar. The cover, with its’ ring foot, was used as a saucer for the teaspoon. However, as these Bowls developed, the covers seemed to disappear about 1760 in English Silver and the "Sugar Urn" began to appear in American Silver. With the advent of the Tea Service there also came the Slop Bowl.
Larger Bowls such as Punch Bowls, Centerpiece Bowls, Baptismal Bowls are also found, although not as common as the smaller Bowls.

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Covered Sugar Bowl by JOSEPH & NATHANIEL RICHARDSON
Philadelphia, c.1780
6 5/8” tall; 10 ozs. 2 dwts.
Inverted Pear Shaped Sugar Bowl with cover on a circular foot. The lid with a cast, simulated leaf form finial. Marked “INR” once on the base.

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Bowl by MARTELE a Division of The Gorham Manufacturing Co.
Retailed by SPAULDING & CO., Chicago
Providence, RI, c.1898
8 ½” diameter; 2 ¼” tall; 21 ozs. 10 dwts.
A circular bowl of “federseichnung” patterning on 4 feet. This design is also referred to as an abstract marine design. Marked on the base with the Gorham date letter for 1898/the Martele Eagle above the lion passant-anchor-G/950-1000 Fine/7674/SPAULDING & CO./CHICAGO.

See: “Magnificent, Marvelous Martele” by John Webster Keefe & Samuel J. Hough, The New Orleans Museum of Art, 2001; pages 84-85 and 110-111.

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Slop Bowl by CHRISTIAN WILTBERGER
Philadelphia, c.1795
4 ¾” tall; 12 ozs.
Circular Shop Bowl on a square base with applied beading at the foot and the top edge. Contemporary script initial “W” on the front. Marked once on the outside edge of the foot “C.WILTBERGER”.

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