Sugar & Creamer

Object/Artifact

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Historic Stonington

Name/Title

Sugar & Creamer

Entry/Object ID

2008.0577

Description

English transferware sugar bowl and creamer once belonging to Olive Spicer of Stonington who was hosting a tea party when the British landed in the harbor on August 9, 1814. Mrs. Spicer fled with her children and these two items, leaving all of her other possessions behind. No maker's mark. Pastoral scene with mother and baby and woodchopper (barrel-maker?)

Collection

Lighthouse