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Covered sugar bowl from a six-piece tea and coffee service

(Illinois, USA, active 1912 – 1934)
1914–1920
Object PlaceEvanston or Aurora, Illinois, USA
Medium/TechniqueSilver
DimensionsOverall: 12.7 × 22.9 × 10.8 cm (5 × 9 × 4 1/4 in.)
Credit LineGift of Dyann and Peter Wirth
Accession number2021.700.3a-b
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsSilver hollowware
Collections
InscriptionsApplied monogram: "RJT"
Provenance2015, sold via private sale by John Toomey Gallery, Chicago, IL to Peter Wirth, Boston; 2021, given by Wirth to the MFA. (Accession date: December 15, 2021)
Mulholland Brothers
1914–1920
Pitcher
Vincent Laforme and Brother
1852
Group shot: 1996.27.1-2
Cooper & Fisher
1855
Tiffany & Co.
about 1878
Pitcher in cornstalk design
William Boch and Brothers
about 1850
Vase
Smith Brothers
1885–92