Re: BROWN ON BROWN
Len, Thanks for your reply. Yes, you may certainly use this sugar bowl for your data base. As for the overall brown color, I'm still wondering if your suggestion that coarse brown sugar may be the reason this piece is entirely brown. The interior and exterior background or field, are so evenly the same shade of brown…even on the handles. The drawings and decorative designs obviously have different tones of brown. This piece along with some other pieces were part of the estate sale and I just looked at a lid, that is cream/white and brown and found that it fits the bowl. The lid is cream and brown colored but the inside does have some mottling, particularly on the edges that would be in contact with the bowl. There is also a creamer that is the Peruvian Hunt Scene, but is the typical cream and brown color. The drawing on the creamer does have 2 "gauchos" riding a horse but neither one is falling off the horse like the scene on the sugar bowl! This piece is marked SHAW'S on the bottom and states it is Peruvian Horse Hunt. The diamond shape registry markings on the bottom are the same as the sugar bowl. Do you think these are a set? Would the drawings be slightly different? Would one piece be marketed Shaw's and not the other? Am I correct from looking at the markings on registry mark that these pieces were manufactured in 1850? The other transferware pieces that were part of the collection in the estate are marked, American Marine Pattern, GLA Bros on the bottom. The creamer and sugar are the only 2 Peruvian Hunt Scene pieces. It's all very curious to me. I am not a true transferware collector, but I am always very inquisitive! Thanks again for your sharing your expertise.
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