J&G Meakin Sterling Colonial Covered Sugar Bowl | English Ironstone | c. 1940s–1960s

The embossed wave relief runs across the body in shallow horizontal bands, pressed into the ironstone before firing. At arm's length the surface reads as plain white. Catch the light at an angle and the whole form becomes topographic.

J&G Meakin produced this shape at their Hanley, Staffordshire works through the middle decades of the twentieth century — the Sterling Colonial blank, covered sugar form, in the particular bright white their ironstone held before the company was absorbed into the Wedgwood Group in 1970. The lid seats cleanly. Both handles are sound. The bud finial intact. The glaze is uncracked and uncrazed.

It came out of a Salvation Army in Rochester, Michigan, in May 2026.

Hunter's Notes

Hunter's notes pending.

The Archive Record — JLM-260030

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