Sugar bowl with lid

1815-1822

Place madeNew York, New York, United States, North America

Silver

Overall: 4 1/4 × 9 3/8 × 7 in., 18 oz (troy) 17.4 dwt (10.8 × 23.8 × 17.8 cm, 587 g)

Bequest of Maria Duane Bleecker Cox

1916.9ab

This sugar bowl belonged to the Honorable Samuel Jones (1734-1819), the first Comptroller of the state of New York (1797-1800). The presentation engravings on this sugar bowl and creamer suggest they were initially owned by the Honorable Samuel Jones (1734-1819), the first comptroller of the State of New York and a recorder of the City of New York. Although born on Long Island into a family of Loyalists, he actively supported the Continental Congress and Revolutionary cause, and was a delegate to the 1788 New York State convention that ratified the Constitution. An associate of John Pintard, Jones became an honorary member of the New-York Historical Society in his later years. It is doubtful that the set was made for Jones, who would have been in his eighth decade, and more likely that a descendant, perhaps his son, scratched his family surname on each underside.

DescriptionWrought silver sugar bowl with lid; oval boat-shaped body with gadrooning around the lower body; seated on an oval, stepped and molded pedestal with a band of gadrooning and a vertically applied, stamped foliate band; pedestal on four hollow cast ball feet; lower body flared to a stamped, vertically applied pastoral landscape band, below a convex shoulder; foliate stamped band vertically applied around the rim; oval lid raised in the center to an oval, gadrooned and domed platform; hollow cast, rectangular, gadrooned and domed finial with an applied foliate band around the center; two cast, squared strap handles; engraved on the shoulder, body and foot in the memory of, "Samuel Jones"; maker's mark on the base.

Markingsengraved: on shoulder, body and foot: "In memory of Samuel Jones/ Born 26 July 1734 Died 21 November 1819/ Recorder of the City of New York 1789-1797/ First Comptroller of the State of New York/ 15 March 1797 - 12 March 1800/ Bequest of his/ great great granddaughter/ Maria Duane Bleeker Cox" stamped: on base: "W. B. HEYER" in a rectangle

ClassificationsSILVER