. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 17.—Silver tongs made by William G. Forbes, of \e\v York, about 1790. In the United States National Museum. The engraved decoration of intersecting lines is typical of the neoclassic style. A variant of this motif appears as the painted border on a porcelain cup and saucer of the same period (fig. 12). {; Smithsoyiian [tlmln ^-^i^i-A.) Albany as reported by Peter Kaliii in 1740: "They never put sugar into the cup, but take a small l)it of it into their mouths while they ; ^' Shallow dishes, such as the one se
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 17.—Silver tongs made by William G. Forbes, of \e\v York, about 1790. In the United States National Museum. The engraved decoration of intersecting lines is typical of the neoclassic style. A variant of this motif appears as the painted border on a porcelain cup and saucer of the same period (fig. 12). {; Smithsoyiian [tlmln ^-^i^i-A.) Albany as reported by Peter Kaliii in 1740: "They never put sugar into the cup, but take a small l)it of it into their mouths while they ; ^' Shallow dishes, such as the one seen in the portrait Susanna Truax, and hemispherical bowls were used as containers for sugar. Often called "sugar dishes" or just "sugars," they were available in delftware, glass (fig. 18), and silver as well as in blue-and-white, burnt, enameled, and penciled china. Some con- tainers were sold with covers, and it has been suggested that the saucer-shaped cover of the hemispherical sugar dish or bowl, fashionable in the first half of the 18th century, also served as a spoon tray. However, in the painting Tea Parly in the Time of George I (fig. 5) the cover is leaning against the bowl and the spoons are in an oval spoon tray or boat. Another possi- bility, if the lid was multipurpose, is that it was used as a dish or stand under the teapot to protect the table top. Silver sugar boxes, basins, and plated sugar baskets were other forms used to hold sugar,"" \\\ 58 Kalm, op. cit. (footnote 7), vol. 1, p. 347. «» Boston .yews-Lelter, April 4, 1771, November 18, 1742, and January 9, 1772; .Vew-l'ork Gazelle, February 14, 1757; Pennsyl- vania Gazette, January 25, 1759; Rivinglon's .New York Gazeteer, January 13, 1774; .New-Tork Journal, August 3, 1775; Boston Gazette, September 11, 1758; .New-York Daily Advertiser, SeinuMy 21, 1797. in whatever container, was a comnuxlity important to the Americans. As Moreau de St. Mery noted, they "use great qu
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