# Sugar Bowl with Cover

- By: Chinese export porcelain (China)
- Date: 1790–1800
- Medium: Hard-paste porcelain, enamels, and gilding
- Classification: Ceramics
- Dimensions: 14 × 14.9 × 11.3 cm (5 1/2 × 5 7/8 × 4 7/16 in.)
- Culture: China
- Credit line: Bequest of Frederick S. Colburn
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/7768)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/2c124a0b-86ef-42d8-048c-24d016de4d3f/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

This sugar bowl, decorated with an American sailing vessel, is among the many examples of souvenir ware that captains and trade merchants special ordered from the porcelain shops in Canton to commemorate their journeys. The decoration on these pieces is of a more personal character than the average stock porcelain. Motifs for commemorative ware were most often copied from illustrations on mercantile and cargo documentation and thus probably bore little resemblance to the actual vessels.

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