Harvard Art Museums > 2020.200: Sugar Dish Vessels Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Sugar Dish (Simeon Soumaine) , 2020.200,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 22, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/369958. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Gallery Text “Taking tea” in wealthy households across the 18th-century Atlantic World was a daily event that necessitated multiple containers and dishes. This engraved sugar dish was part of an elaborate tea service made for Mary Spratt Provoost (1693–1760), a noted colonial merchant in New York City, and her second husband, lawyer James Alexander (1691–1756). Their shared coat-of-arms forms the embellished monogram on the dish’s side. The desire for sugar as a sweetener initiated the plantation economies of the Americas. Spratt Provoost’s export business sourced silver plate from the mines at Potosí, in present-day Bolivia, and sugar from Cuba, Jamaica, and Saint-Domingue. Identification and Creation Object Number 2020.200 People Simeon Soumaine, American (London c. 1685 - c. 1750 New York, New York) Title Sugar Dish Classification Vessels Work Type vessel Date c. 1750 Places Creation Place: North America, United States, New York, New York Culture American Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/369958 Location Location Level 2, Room 2240, European and American Art, 17th–19th century, The Arts in the Eighteenth–Century Atlantic World View this object's location on our interactive map Physical Descriptions Medium Silver Dimensions 12.1 cm (4 3/4 in.) 120 g Inscriptions and Marks maker's mark: under base, stamped: SS [in square punch] [mark of Simeon Soumaine] coat of arms: side, engraved: [arms of James Alexander and Mary Spratt] monogram: under base, engraved: A. / J. [cinquefoil] M. [monogram of James Alexander and Mary Spratt] Provenance Recorded Ownership History James Alexander (1690-1756) and Mary Spratt (1693-1760), New York. [Firestone & Parson, Boston]. [Sotheby's, New York, January 18, 2003, lot 877]. Daniel and Susan Pollack, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2020 Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Pollack Collection, gift of Daniel A. Pollack AB ’60 and Susan F. Pollack AB ’64 Accession Year 2020 Object Number 2020.200 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Descriptions Description Footed "rice-bowl" shape with rococo chasing Publication History Jeanne Sloane, Early American Silver in the collection of Daniel A. Pollack, Privately Published (Boston [?], 2019), cat. no. 12, repr. Exhibition History 32Q: 2240 18th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/26/2024 - 01/01/2050 From the Andes to the Caribbean: American Art from the Spanish Empire, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/03/2023 - 07/30/2023 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
