Featured English ironstone? small sauce/gravy tureen

This piece is not marked but I get the feeling it is possibly English ironstone. Hopefully someone can help with the maker or the pattern & it isn't 2 blokes in the shed again.

It is 6 3/8" tall to the top of the handle on the lid, 3 7/8" to the side edge & is 5 1/4" by 4 7/8" across the top. There are no marks stamped or impressed that I can find.



Thanks for any & all advice or opinions!!!

 

(That shalt not Covet...mutter, mutter)

 

Early 19th English and I suspect for sugar, rather than sauce. Gravy would be a boat.

 

You don't have to covet it. It can be yours, because it will be up for bid this evening.

Really, a sugar bowl??? That would be one big ass sugar bowl.

They say the 21st century folks are addicted to that sugar stuff, obviously there were some Victorian blokes who kind of liked it also.

Thanks OOB!!!

 

Sugar came in huge lumps back than and had to be broken up - so sugar bowls were huge.

 

I did not know this. Okay this is my learned something today.

Thank you again!!!

 

You're most welcome.

 

I know sugar bowls were huge, but I'm pretty sure they didn't have cutouts for ladles or spoons.

 

Agree with Janet.
The cut out indicates sauce or gravy, not sugar.

 

I was planning on using sugar bowl & sauce tureen in my title just to cover all of my bases. I will add cut out lid for good measure.

Thanks for the additional help!!

 

I've seen sugars here with cut out lids, both pottery and silver/plate.

 

There are sugar bowls that I have seen that have cut outs for spoons but I have never seen one that big. Must have a large sweet tooth.

 

I deleted my post.

 

If the sugar bowl is that large, it was to accommodate a cone or loaf of sugar, and my thinking is that a spoon would not be the tool of choice. But--the buyer can use it for whatever.

 

Think big Victorian families, lots of children, maiden Aunt Jessie, Grandfather Eldridge...

 

The cone or loaf usually got bashed up a bit by t'maid before going in the bowl.

 

A really big mustard pot or condiment jar?
EDIT: IGNORE ME. DID NOT LOOK BACK AT PHOTOS & THOUGHT I WAS REMARKING ON A DIFFERENT POST. GRAVY SEEMS MOST REASONABLE TO ME FOR THIS PIECE.

 

I am going to ask my butler Jeeves what he thinks when he returns from the market.
I wish I had a Jeeves.

 

Never mustard. That has to be made fresh every time.

 

My grandmother had one, tho it may have been bigger. She used it for chicken soup I think.