Sugar bowl with sugar coating

Due to its form, uncommon in the Kingdom, a 19th-century silver sugar bowl with elongated handles and was probably made to order from a Russian goldsmith. This small object (height 15.5 cm, width 20 cm) was made using the puckering technique, which involves hammering out decorative shapes on the surface of the object to produce randomly placed semi-circular or teardrop-shaped nodules, sometimes forming whole clusters. The foot of the sugar bowl is decorated with eight prominent knobs. The short shank is decorated with a row of pearls, while the pear-shaped body is covered with two rows of drop-shaped nodules – larger at the bottom, smaller at the top. Symmetrically placed on the sides, the two lugs in the form of the letter C, made of a circular shaft, were decorated with small leaves in the embeds. In addition, the lid has a handle in the form of a poppy surrounded by small leaves. The underside of the object bears an illegible goldsmith's punch and the segmented mark of the Moscow assay house – the assayer's monogram A.K., the date 1848 and the sample designation 84 (84 goldsmiths). Interestingly, until 1852 no silver sample was used in Poland.