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This is a French Haviland & Co Limoges hard paste porcelain sugar bowl jar – the large size. The date is the 19th century, circa 1865 to 1875.

The jar has a chip on the inside edge of the mouth, where the lids sits, which I show in photos.

This jar is 6 ¾” high to the top of the finial and 6 3/4” wide from handle-to-handle.

This is one of Haviland’s earliest transfer patterns, called moss rose. The pattern is not distinct, more blobs of color applied over the outlines.

I don’t know the name of the blank. Note the round foot, which is interesting for a sugar bowl.

This is an old piece, so there is quite a bit of gold wear, and mostly on the handles and the trim around the foot. The edge of the flared rim has aging wear to the glaze, which feels as a slight bit of roughness to the fingertips.

There are no other chips, nicks, cracks, or crazing.

I acquired a collection of Haviland and Limoges sugar bowls from an estate. The owner used the different jars as tea caddy jars, to store loose leaf tea, a different tea in each jar; the tea was purchased from Upton tea, so it was very fine tea I had to throw out from each jar.

The mark is an impressed H & Co, which was impossible to photograph, but visible to the eyes upon inspection.